讲混沌通识课,难免要引用 The Theogony of Hesiod 中的 Verily at the first Chaos came to be 。顺便翻翻 Hesiod 的另一名篇, Works and Days. 有段话很有意思,大概就是古人所谓“成人不自在,自在不成人”。 Badness can be got easily and in shoals: the road to her is smooth, an ...
非常意外三钱中仅存的 钱伟长 先生与世长辞。不久前,还听与钱老有交往的人透露,他已经进入无喜无忧的境界,将益寿延年。因此,我在大会发言中说, Aged 98, he is a legendary figure belonging to the realm beyond the wildest imagine of common people. 重新通读钱老的《教育和教学问题 ...
莎翁的历史剧 Julius Caesar 的语言相对通俗。第四幕第三场中 Brutus 有段独白感慨命运,读后颇有共鸣。命运如潮,时不我待。 There is a tide in the affairs of men, Which, taken at the flood, leads on the fortune; Omitted, all the voyage of their life Is bound in shallows ...