The humanities need to be defended today against the encroachments of physical science, as they once needed to be against the encroachment of theology.

  • -- Irving Babbitt 白璧德

今天,人文学科需要抵御物理科学的侵蚀,就像它们曾经需要抵御神学的侵蚀一样。

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Vampires have always held a very seductive kind of lore and have always been some variety of attractive, whether it's attractiveness that's born of just the physical attributes that they have - this kind of ethereal beauty or translucent pallor - or whether it is more to do with the way they carry themselves.

吸血鬼总是持有一种诱人的传说,一直是一些各种各样的吸引力,不管是吸引力的出生的物理属性,他们——这种空灵的美或半透明苍白——还是与他们携带自己的方式。

All this fuss about sleeping together. For physical pleasure I'd sooner go to my dentist any day.

所有这些关于睡在一起的小题大做。为了身体上的快乐,我宁愿每天去看牙医。

I think the perception of there being a deep gulf between science and the humanities is false.

我认为那种认为科学和人文学科之间存在巨大鸿沟的看法是错误的。

There is only one theology, but there are many theologians.

神学只有一种,但神学家却很多。