The limit of man s knowledge in any subject possesses a high interest which is perhaps increased by its close neighbourhood to the realms of imagination.

  • -- Charles Darwin 查尔斯·达尔文

人类对任何一门学科的知识的有限性都具有很高的兴趣,而这种兴趣的增加也许是因为它与想象的领域关系密切。

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One of the strongest motives that lead men to art and science is escape from everyday life with its painful crudity and hopeless dreariness, from the fetters of one''s own ever-shifting desires. A finely tempered nature longs to escape from the personal life into the world of objective perception and thought.

引导人们走向艺术和科学的最强烈的动机之一,是摆脱日常生活中令人痛苦的粗俗和无望的沉闷,摆脱自己不断变化的欲望的束缚。性情温和的人渴望逃离个人生活,进入客观的感知和思考的世界。

We have not given science too big a place in our education, but we have made a perilous mistake in giving it too great a preponderance in method in every other branch of study.

我们并没有在教育中给予科学太大的地位,但是我们犯了一个危险的错误,在方法上给了科学在其他学科中太大的优势。