At the heart of every faith system is a bargain: on one side there is the comfort that comes from a narrative that suggests human life has cosmic significance, and on the other a duty to yield to moral commands that can, in the moment, seem rather inconvenient.

  • -- Gary Hamel 哈默尔

每一种信仰体系的核心都是一笔交易:一方面,从一段说明人类生活具有宇宙意义的叙述中获得的慰藉,另一方面,人们有责任服从道德命令,而在目前看来,道德命令可能相当不方便。

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In order to make further progress, particularly in the field of cosmic rays, it will be necessary to apply all our resources and apparatus simultaneously and side-by-side; an effort which has not yet been made, or at least, only to a limited extent.

为了取得进一步的进展,特别是在宇宙射线领域,将有必要同时和并排使用我们所有的资源和设备;一项尚未作出的努力,或至少只在有限的范围内作出的努力。

Batty as it sounds, subject and style may choose artists, through some unfathomable cosmic means. How else to explain that even artists who enjoy what they do can be perplexed or even horrified that they're doing it?

虽然听起来很古怪,但主题和风格可以通过一些深不可测的宇宙手段来选择艺术家。否则如何解释,即使是喜欢自己所做的事情的艺术家,也会对自己正在做的事情感到困惑甚至恐惧?

I will always want to do whatever it is that my heart is in, and whether I get paid for it or not means nothing. It doesn't matter. I'll do it if it means something to me and I want to be a part of it.

我将永远想做我内心深处想做的事情,无论我是否得到报酬,都没有任何意义。没关系。如果它对我有意义并且我想成为它的一部分,我就会去做。

People need a sacred narrative. They must have a sense of larger purpose, in one form or another, however intellectualized. They will find a way to keep ancestral spirits alive.

人们需要一个神圣的故事。他们必须有一种更大的目标感,以某种形式存在,无论多么理智。他们将找到一种方法来保持祖先的灵魂活着。

If you do weave one-liners into a story, you have to have an overall story as well, otherwise it doesn't really count as narrative.

如果你真的要在一个故事中加入一句话,你也必须要有一个完整的故事,否则它就不能算作是叙述。

Sometimes there were troubles but no one can be a hero without the heart being torn open.

有时会有麻烦,但没有人可以成为一个英雄不被撕裂的心。