To conquer nature is, in effect, to remove all natural barriers and human norms and to substitute artificial, fabricated equivalents for natural processes.

  • -- Alex Campbell 亚历克斯·坎贝尔

实际上,征服自然就是消除一切自然障碍和人类准则,用人为的、捏造的等价物来代替自然过程。

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The world is given to me only once, not one existing and one perceived. Subject and object are only one. The barrier between them cannot be said to have broken down as a result of recent experience in the physical sciences, for this barrier does not exist.

世界只给我一次,不存在也不感知。主语和宾语只有一个。由于最近在物理科学方面的经验,不能说它们之间的障碍已经被打破,因为这种障碍并不存在。

I have been an "Official" all my life, without the least turn for it. I never could attain a true official manner, which is highly artificial and handles trifles with ludicrously disproportionate gravity.

我一生都是一个“官员”,没有一点机会。我从来没有获得过一种真正的官方态度,这种态度是高度人为的,处理小事的时候严肃得可笑。

No poet will ever take the written word as a substitute for the spoken word; he knows that it is on the spoken word, and the spoken word only, that his art is founded.

没有诗人会把书面文字作为口头文字的替代品;他知道他的艺术是建立在口头上的,而且仅仅是口头上的。

To fight and conquer in all our battles is not supreme excellence; supreme excellence consists in breaking the enemy's resistance without fighting.

在我们所有的战斗中战斗并征服不是最卓越的;最大的优点在于不战而破敌之抵抗。

Men and girls, men and girls: Artificial swine and pearls.

男人和女孩,男人和女孩:人造猪和珍珠。

Energy and determination conquer all things.

能量和决心可以征服一切。

I reject your reality and substitute my own.

我拒绝你的现实,而代之以我自己的现实。

A barrier is of ideas, not of things.

障碍是观念,而不是事物。