New opinions often appear first as jokes and fancies, then as blasphemies and treason, then as questions open to discussion, and finally as established truths.

  • -- George Bernard Shaw 萧伯纳

新观点常常首先以玩笑和幻想的形式出现,然后以亵渎和背叛的形式出现,最后以可供讨论的问题的形式出现,最后以公认的真理的形式出现。

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I do not at all have the mind of a bully... in my mind bullies are intolerant of contrary opinion, domineering and rather cowardly. I would hope that none of those terms could be fairly used in describing me.

我根本没有恃强凌弱的想法……在我看来,恃强凌弱者不能容忍相反的意见,专横跋扈,相当胆小。我希望在描述我的时候,没有一个词可以被公平地使用。

Make men wise, and by that very operation you make them free. Civil liberty follows as a consequence of this; no usurped power can stand against the artillery of opinion.

使人聪明,使人自由。由此产生了公民自由;任何篡夺的权力都不能抵挡舆论的炮火。

Judge others by their questions rather than by their answers.

判断别人要看他们的问题,而不是他们的答案。

Discovery is the ability to be puzzled by simple things.

发现是一种被简单事物迷惑的能力。