Observe always that everything is the result of change, and get used to thinking that there is nothing Nature loves so well as to change existing forms and make new ones like them.

  • -- Marcus Aurelius 马库斯·奥雷利乌斯

要时刻注意,每件事都是变化的结果,要习惯于这样的想法:自然界最喜欢改变现有的形式,创造出与之相似的新形式。

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Change does not necessarily assure progress, but progress implacably requires change. Education is essential to change, for education creates both new wants and the ability to satisfy them.

变化不一定保证进步,但进步必然需要变化。教育对改变至关重要,因为教育既能创造新的需求,也能满足新的需求。

To do the opposite of something is also a form of imitation, namely an imitation of its opposite.

做某事的对立面也是模仿的一种形式,即模仿它的对立面。

Technological change is like an axe in the hands of a pathological criminal.

技术变革就像病态罪犯手中的斧头。

Nature is commonplace. Imitation is more interesting.

自然是司空见惯的事了。模仿更有趣。