Дневниковое
Jan. 31st, 2004 05:39 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
snydersНе отдадим родной земли,
Никто из нас не трус.
Идут Марселла корабли,
На приступ Сиракуз.
Мы гномы, гномы, гномы, гномы, гномы,
Все сказочные тайны нам знакомы.
Но людям, людям, людям, людям, людям,
богатство мы показывать не будем.
Yet Archimedes possessed so high a spirit, so profound a soul, and such treasures of scientific knowledge, that though these inventions had now obtained him the renown of more than human sagacity, he yet would not deign to leave behind him any commentary or writing on such subjects; but, repudiating as sordid and ignoble the whole trade of engineering, and every sort of art that lends itself to mere use and profit, he placed his whole affection and ambition in those purer speculations where there can be no reference to the vulgar needs of life; studies, the superiority of which to all others is unquestioned, and in which the only doubt can be, whether the beauty and grandeur of the subjects examined, or the precision and cogency of the methods and means of proof, most deserve our admiration.
--Plutarch "The Life of Marcellus".
Никто из нас не трус.
Идут Марселла корабли,
На приступ Сиракуз.
Мы гномы, гномы, гномы, гномы, гномы,
Все сказочные тайны нам знакомы.
Но людям, людям, людям, людям, людям,
богатство мы показывать не будем.
Yet Archimedes possessed so high a spirit, so profound a soul, and such treasures of scientific knowledge, that though these inventions had now obtained him the renown of more than human sagacity, he yet would not deign to leave behind him any commentary or writing on such subjects; but, repudiating as sordid and ignoble the whole trade of engineering, and every sort of art that lends itself to mere use and profit, he placed his whole affection and ambition in those purer speculations where there can be no reference to the vulgar needs of life; studies, the superiority of which to all others is unquestioned, and in which the only doubt can be, whether the beauty and grandeur of the subjects examined, or the precision and cogency of the methods and means of proof, most deserve our admiration.
--Plutarch "The Life of Marcellus".
