The earth together with its surrounding waters must in fact have such a shape as its shadow reveals, for it eclipses the moon with the arc of a perfect circle.

  • -- Nicolaus Copernicus 哥白尼

地球和它周围的水一定是这样的形状,就像它的影子所揭示的那样,因为它以一个完美的圆弧遮住了月亮。

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The artist is a receptacle for emotions that come from all over the place: from the sky, from the earth, from a scrap of paper, from a passing shape, from a spider's web.

艺术家是情感的容器,情感来自四面八方:来自天空,来自大地,来自一张纸片,来自一个路过的形状,来自一张蜘蛛网。

A rock reveals itself to be sacred because its very existence is a hierophany: incompressible, invulnerable, it is that which man is not.

岩石显示出它自己是神圣的,因为它的存在本身就是一个导师:不可压缩的,坚不可摧的,这是人所不具备的。

We did not come to fear the future. We came here to shape it.

我们来这里不是为了害怕未来。我们来这里塑造它。

Fiction reveals truths that reality obscures.

小说揭示了现实所掩盖的真相。