The myths underlying our culture and underlying our common sense have not taught us to feel identical with the universe, but only parts of it, only in it, only confronting it - aliens.

  • -- Alan Wilson Watts 艾伦·威尔逊·沃茨

我们的文化和常识背后的神话并没有教会我们与宇宙有相同的感觉,而只是宇宙的一部分,只是其中的一部分,只是面对它——外星人。

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I think anybody would have to be with out common sense to think there weren't aliens. There are billions of planets, and I am convinced Earth is not the only one that's inhabited. It would be quite an ego trip to think that. I think about it all the time.

我想所有人都是没有常识的人,才会认为地球上没有外星人。地球上有数十亿颗行星,我相信地球并不是唯一有人居住的星球。这样想未免太自负了。我一直在想这件事。

The thing about owls is that they do sort of have this facial disc, which is unlike any other bird. They kind of have a face, more than like a dog or a giraffe. They have this weird, alien face that you can actually make expressive.

猫头鹰的特点是它们确实有这种面部圆盘,这和其他鸟类不同。它们有一张脸,不像狗或长颈鹿。他们有一张奇怪的,陌生的脸,你可以把它表现出来。

Why shouldn't we give our teachers a license to obtain software, all software, any software, for nothing? Does anyone demand a licensing fee, each time a child is taught the alphabet?

为什么我们不能给我们的老师一张免费获得软件的许可证,所有的软件,任何软件?是否有人在每次教孩子字母表的时候都要收取许可费?

Higher education is confronting challenges, like the economy is, about the need for a higher number of more adequately trained, more highly educated citizenry.

高等教育正面临着与经济一样的挑战,即需要更多训练有素、受教育程度更高的公民。

In the black culture, certain kids are given nicknames that they roll with forever; the nicknames outweigh their real names. I'm one of those scenarios.

在黑人文化中,某些孩子会被起绰号,他们会永远和这些绰号混在一起;绰号比真名更重要。我就是其中之一。

There is a garbage culture out there, where we pour garbage on people. Then the pollsters run around and take a poll and say, do you smell anything?

有一种垃圾文化,我们把垃圾倒在人们身上。然后民意调查人员跑来跑去,做了个调查,说,你闻到什么了吗?

The ideal and the beautiful are identical; the ideal corresponds to the idea, and beauty to form; hence idea and substance are cognate.

理想与美丽是一致的;理想对应于理想,美对应于形式;因此理念与实体是同源的。

When they discover the center of the universe, a lot of people will be disappointed to discover they are not it.

当他们发现宇宙的中心时,很多人会失望地发现他们不是宇宙的中心。

If writers were good businessmen, they'd have too much sense to be writers.

如果作家是优秀的商人,他们就会有太多的理智去写作。

The universe is simple; it's the explanation that's complex.

宇宙很简单;这个解释很复杂。

I taught sixth grade for three and a half years.

我教了三年半的六年级。

No two wars are identical.

没有两场战争是相同的。