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The irrational in the human has something about it altogether repulsive and terrible, as we see in the maniac, the miser, the drunkard or the ape.

  • -- George Santayana 乔治·桑塔亚纳

人类的非理性具有某种令人厌恶和可怕的东西，正如我们在疯子、吝啬鬼、醉汉或无尾猿身上所看到的那样。

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A catcher must want to catch. He must make up his mind that it isn't the terrible job it is painted, and that he isn't going to say every day, 'Why, oh why with so many other positions in baseball did I take up this one.'

接球手必须想接球。他必须下定决心，这并不是一份糟糕的工作，他也不会每天都说，‘为什么，哦，为什么我要在棒球界担任这么多其他的职位。’

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Our science has become terrible, our research dangerous, our findings deadly. We physicists have to make peace with reality. Reality is not as strong as we are. We will ruin reality.

我们的科学变得可怕，我们的研究变得危险，我们的发现变得致命。我们物理学家必须与现实和平相处。现实没有我们强大。我们会毁了现实。

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I encountered among my comrades the most varied human traits, from frankness to reserve, from goodness, uprightness and kindness, to brutality and baseness.

在我的同志们中间，我遇到了各种各样的人的性格，从坦率到含蓄，从善良、正直和善良，到残暴和卑鄙。

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Favor comes because for a brief moment in the great space of human change and progress some general human purpose finds in him a satisfactory embodiment.

因为在人类变化和进步的伟大空间里，有一段短暂的时间，某些人类的普遍目标在他身上得到了令人满意的体现。

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I always had a repulsive need to be something more than human.

我总是有一种令人厌恶的需要，那就是超越人类。

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