"During my years of teaching literature at Cornell and elsewhere I demanded of my students the passion of science and the patience of poetry. As an artist and scholar I prefer the specific detail to the generalization, images to ideas, obscure facts to clear symbols, and the discovered wild fruit to the synthetic jam." (SO, p. 7)
「我在康乃爾與其它地方教授文學的時候，總要求學生具備科學的熱情與詩歌的耐性。身為藝術家與學者，我偏好的是獨特的細節而非一般的通性，是圖象而非觀念，是模糊的事實而非清晰的象徵，是發現的野果而非綜合的果醬。」*
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"There is no science without fancy, and no art without facts. Aphoristicism is a symptom of arteriosclerosis." (SO, p. 79)
「沒有幻想，便不是科學；沒有事實，也不成藝術。好用警句是動脈硬化的癥兆。」
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【摘自《Strong Opinions》】
* 在潘小松譯本中，「綜合的果醬」居然合久而分，自行析解，成了「條分縷析的果醬」（《固執己見》，吉林長春：時代文藝出版社，1998，8頁）
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