Words, words, words! They shut one off from the universe. Three quarters of the time one's never in contact with things, only with the beastly words that stand for them.

  • -- Aldous Huxley 奥尔德斯·赫胥黎

单词,单词,单词!他们把一个人与宇宙隔绝了。四分之三的时间里,一个人从来没有接触过事物,只接触过代表它们的兽性的词语。

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The effort to understand the universe is one of the very few things that lifts human life a little above the level of farce, and gives it some of the grace of tragedy.

努力理解宇宙是为数不多的能让人类的生活稍稍超越闹剧水平,并赋予它一些悲剧的优雅的东西之一。

All the best stories are but one story in reality - the story of escape. It is the only thing which interests us all and at all times, how to escape.

所有最好的故事在现实中不过是一个故事——一个关于逃跑的故事。如何逃跑,这是我们所有人在任何时候唯一感兴趣的事情。

If you're going to dedicate every second to winning the decathlon, what are you doing wasting your time in bed?

如果你要把每一秒都奉献给赢得十项全能,你在床上浪费时间干什么?

And what we know, or think we know, about the universe of space and time is changing very quickly.

我们所知道的,或者说我们认为我们所知道的,关于宇宙空间和时间的变化非常快。