in this world there is always danger for those who are afraid of it. (george bernad shaw, british dramastist)

　　對于害怕危險的人，這個世界上總是 危險的。(英國劇作家 肖伯納 g)

　　it is not true suffering ennobles the character; happiness does that sometimes, but suffering, for the most part, makes men petty and vindictive. (william somerset maugham, british novelist)

　　說苦難能使人格得到升華，這是不確切的;幸福有時倒能做到這一點，而苦難常會使人心胸狹窄，產生復仇的心理。(英國小說家 毛姆 w s)

　　There is but one step from the sublime to the ridiculous.

　　崇高與荒謬僅一步之遙。—Napoleon

　　What's in a name? That which we call a rose by any other name would smell as sweet.

　　名稱有什么關系呢?玫瑰不叫玫瑰，依然芳香如故。—Shakespeare

　　Growing old is not upsetting; being perceived as old is.

　　越來越老并不可怕，可怕的是讓人覺得越來越老。—Kenny Rogers

　　Nothing in life is to be feared. It is only to be understood.

　　生活中沒有可怕的東西，只有應去了解的東西。—Marie Curie

　　Scientific knowledge aims at being wholly impersonal.

　　科學知識要求完全不受個人感情的影響。 —Bertrand Russell

　　Nature never deceives us; it is always us who deceive ourselves.

　　大自然永遠不會欺騙我們，欺騙我們的往往是我們自己。—Rousseau

　　Truth is beautiful. Withoutdoubt; and so are lies.

　　真理是美的;毫無疑問，謊言也是如此。 —Emerson.

　　Death…is no more than passing from one room into another.

　　死亡只不過是從一個房間進入另一個房間。—Helen Keller

　　That is the essence of science: ask an impertinent question, and you are on the way to the pertinent answer.

　　科學的本質是：問一個不恰當的問題，于是走上了通往恰當答案的路。—Jacob Bronowski

　　let us suggest to the person in crisis that he cease concentrating so upon the dangers involved and the difficultie，and concentrate instead upon the opptunity---for there is always opportunity in crisis. (seebohm caroline, british physician)

　　讓我們建議處在危機之中的人：不要把精力如此集中地放在所涉入的危險和困難上，相反而要集中在機會上——因為危機中總是存在著機會。(英國醫生 卡羅琳 s)

　　if you want to live your whole life free from pain

　　如果你想一生擺脫苦難

　　you must become either a god or else a coupes

　　你就得是神或者是死尸