Science, Stephen Jay Gould

The most important scientific revolutions all include, as their only common feature, the dethronement of human arrogance from one pedestal after another of previous convictions about our centrality in the cosmos.

- Stephen Jay Gould

중요한 과학 혁명들의 유일한 공통적 특성은, 인간이 우주의 중심이라는 기존의 신념에서 인간의 오만함을 끌어내렸다는 점입니다.

- 스티븐 제이 굴드

Beauty, Elizabeth Gilbert

You were given life; it is your duty (and also your entitlement as a human being) to find something beautiful within life, no matter how slight.

― Elizabeth Gilbert

Investing, Wall Street

Investing is earning a return in exchange for shouldering risk.

- Wall Street

Get your risks straight.

투자란 리스크를 부담하는 대가로 수익을 얻는 것이다.

- 월가격언

당신이 짊어진 리스크를 직시하라.

Breeding, Turkish Proverb

Birth is much, but breeding is more. - Turkish Proverb 태생보다는 양육이 더 중요하다. - 터키속담

Advice, Mencius

山徑之蹊間 介然用之而成路 爲間不用 則茅塞之矣.

- 孟子 盡心下

A trail through the mountains, if used, becomes a path in a short time, but, if unused, becomes blocked by grass in an equally short time.

- Mencius, the great philosopher

산중에 난 좁은 길도 계속 다니면 길이 되고, 다니지 않으면 곧 풀이 우거져 막힌다

- 맹자[孟子, Mencius] 진심하

Honesty, Georg Christoph Lichtenberg

If all mankind were suddenly to practice honesty, many thousands of people would be sure to starve.

- Georg Christoph Lichtenberg (1742~1799)

만약 모든 사람들이 갑자기 정직해진다면, 굶어죽을 사람들이 많을 것이다.

- 게오르크 리히텐베르크(Georg Christoph Lichtenberg, 1742~1799), 독일 물리학자이자 계몽 사상가

Neighbor, Ambrose Bierce

NEIGHBOR, n. One whom we are commanded to love as ourselves, and who does all he knows how to make us disobedient.

- Ambrose Bierce, The Devil's Dictionary, 1911

Death, Ali

Every breath you take is a step towards death.

- Ali, Nahj ul-Balagha, sayings:74

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http://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Death

Adam and Eve, F. H. Bradley

“Adam knew Eve his wife and she conceived.” It is a pity that this is still the only knowledge of their wives at which some men seem to arrive.

- F. H. Bradley, Aphorisms, no. 94 (1930)

http://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Adam_and_Eve

Parting, Alfred Tennyson

Gone - flitted away,
Taken the stars from the night and the sun
From the day!
Gone, and a cloud in my heart.

- Alfred Tennyson

떠났네 훨훨
밤에게서 별을
낮에게서 해를 가져갔네
떠났네, 이제 내 마음에는 구름만이 남았네.

- 알프레드 테니슨