• 11 • 2009 2011年 “There are three parts in truth: first, the inquiry, which is the wooing of it; secondly, the knowledge of it, which is the presence of it; and thirdly, the belief, which is the enjoyment of it.” 真理三步曲:首為叩問,如求偶之切慕;次為知識,窺其堂奧 之妙;三為信仰,樂在其中。 – Francis Bacon(培根,1561-1626) 英國哲學家 2010年 “I don't know what I may seem to the world. But as to myself I seem to have been only like a boy playing on the seashore and diverting myself now and then finding a smoother pebble or a prettier shell than the ordinary, whilst the great ocean of truth lay all undiscovered before me.” 我不知道人怎樣看我,但我看自己像一個在沙灘嬉戲的小孩 子,因發現一些比較平滑的小石塊和漂亮的貝殼而入了神,但 面對茫茫大海的真理,我尚未知曉。 – Isaac Newton ( 以撒.牛頓,1642-1727) 英國科學家,臨終時為自己一生的科研事業作總結 2009年 “Make no little plans. They have no magic to stir humanity's blood and probably themselves will not be realized. Make big plans; aim high in hope and work, remembering that a noble, logical diagram once recorded will never die, but long after we are gone will be a living thing, asserting itself with ever-growing insistency……Let your watchword be order and your beacon, beauty. Think big.” 計劃時,不要細眉細眼。它們沒有魔力令人血脈奔騰,而且極 可能不會實現。要計劃恢宏,期盼高瞻,目標遠大。當緊記, 一個高貴、合理的圖像一經繪錄下來,便永不死亡;當我們離 去,日子漫過,將成為一個生命,含潤堅挺,生生不息……。 願秩序,為你的口號;願優美,作你的航引。要思想遠博。 – Daniel Burnham (但以理.伯納姆, 1846-1912) 美國建築師,設計1893年芝加哥世界博覽會。 令我感到高興的是學生對這些雋永的 語錄和禱文有反應。一位同學在網誌 這樣說:「伍渭文牧師真是可愛。崇 基五十九歲大慶將至,在同學們喜慶 的歌舞演出過後,牧師用了英國作家 Munro 的一句話為今天的週會(2010 年10月22日)作結,居然還說這是『禮 贊我們的青蔥歲月』:The young have aspirations that never come to pass; the old have reminiscences of what never happened. (年青人對從未發生 過的事,滿有憧憬;年長的人,對從未 出現過的事情,緬懷不已。)牧師最後 說,『未圓湖』三個字就暗寓了 Munro 話中之意。說得真好,今朝眺望來日, 未圓是not yet;來日反顧往昔,未圓 是not ever。只有行過,沒有完成。」 同學在網誌與我互動,我感到欣悅。 2011 2010
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