Education can counteract the natural tendency to do the wrong thing, but the inexorable succession of generations requires that the basis for this knowledge be constantly refreshed.

  • -- Garrett Hardin 加勒特·哈丁

教育可以抵消做错事的自然倾向,但世代相传的必然要求不断更新这种知识的基础。

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Human nature must have come much nearer perfection than it is now, or will be in many generations, to exclude from such a control prejudice, selfishness, ambition, and injustice.

人类的本性必须比现在或未来许多代人更接近完美,才能排除这种控制偏见、自私、野心和不公。

Science is triumphant with far-ranging success, but its triumph is somehow clouded by growing difficulties in providing for the simple necessities of human life on earth.

科学已经取得了广泛的成功,但它的成功却被地球上人类生活中越来越多的简单必需品的困难所笼罩。

It is incumbent on every generation to pay its own debts as it goes. A principle which if acted on would save one-half the wars of the world.

每一代人都有责任按现状偿还自己的债务。这一原则如果付诸实施,将拯救世界上一半的战争。

Life is a succession of lessons enforced by immediate reward, or, oftener, by immediate chastisement.

生活是一连串的教训,通过立即的奖赏而强化,或者更经常的是通过立即的惩罚而强化。

Every linguistic sign is located on two axes: the axis of simultaneity and that of succession.

每个语言符号都位于两个轴上:同时性轴和连续性轴。

My formula for success is rise early, sleep late and strike oil.

我成功的秘诀是早起、晚睡和发大财。