换句话说，伏尔泰在科学上的业余性“是他当时吸引力的一个来源，第一次证明了牛顿的思想对非专业人士的可接受性”。
In other words, Voltaire's amateurism in science "was a source of his contemporary appeal, demonstrating for the first time the accessibility of Newton's ideas to nonspecialists".
根据法因戈尔德的说法，伏尔泰的书吸引了广泛的读者，因为“他既不是数学家也不是物理学家，而是一个远离牛顿思想学术之争的文学巨人”。
Voltaire's book commanded a wide audience, according to Feingold, because "he was neither a mathematician nor a physicist, but a literary giant aloof from the academic disputes over Newtonian ideas".
最有影响的评论者是伏尔泰。
第二天，古费拉克邀他到伏尔泰咖啡馆吃午饭。
Courfeyrac invited him to breakfast at the Cafe Voltaire on the following morning.
伏尔泰用地震来攻击那些自然神论乐观主义者。
第二，是跟伏尔泰的对话。
出自：伏尔泰，他临终前，一位牧师请他与撒旦断绝关系。
我非常认同叔本华、伏尔泰、尼采、弗洛伊德的观点。
I resonate greatly with the views of Schopenhauer, Voltaire, Nietzsche, Freud.
伏尔泰曾经与腓特烈大帝来往，过了不久他便说，“我要离开”。
Voltaire went and hung out with Frederick the Great, and after a while he said, "Let me out of here."
有些哲学家，例如伏尔泰诸人，都肯定说干那种事的人恰巧是胜利者。
Some philosophers--Voltaire among the number--affirm that it is precisely those persons have made the glory.
出自：伏尔泰，他临终前，一位牧师请他与撒旦断绝关系。
我不赞成你的意见，但我誓死保卫你的发言权。——伏尔泰。
I disapprove of what you say, but I will defend to the death your right to say it. — Voltaire.
上帝为了补偿人间诸般烦恼事，给了我们希望和睡眠。——伏尔泰。
To compensate all troubles on earth, god gives us hope and sleep.
不确定是一个不舒适的位置。但肯定是个荒谬的位置。“-伏尔泰。”
"Uncertainty is an uncomfortable position. But certainty is an absurd position." - Voltaire.
要在这个世界上获得成功，就必须坚持到底：至死都不能放手。——伏尔泰。
To succeed in this world, we must stick to it: to death can't let go.
人类第一个国王乃是一名成功的士兵，国家的功臣无需有荣耀的祖先。——伏尔泰。
The first human king but a successful soldier, hero of the country without glory ancestors. - Voltaire.
法国的哲学家们像是卢梭，孟德斯鸠和伏尔泰都认识到社会现实并尝试着建立人类的普世权利。
The French philsophes, Rousseau, Montesquieu, and Voltaire reacted to the social conditions they saw and sought to establish universal rights of man.
当还缺乏产生信仰的足够理由时，要用信念去包涵。模棱两可不足以支持一个信仰。（伏尔泰） ）
Faith consists in believing when it is beyond the power of reason to believe. It is not enough that a thing be possible for it to be believed.
骑士先生在他的回忆录中曾说，每次同伏尔泰交夜间交谈之后，他就会迅速记录下能记住的谈话细节。
The Chevalier states in his memoir that each night immediately after conversing with Voltaire, he wrote down everything he could remember about that particular night's conversation.
对现世的仔细研究，以及良好组织结构，使孔子的儒家思想在18世纪的启迪书籍中备受推崇，伏尔泰已经不流行。
The perusal of the secular, highly organized, Confucian society so admired by 18th century Enlightenment writers such as Voltaire is now out of fashion.
希拉里：当然是啦。喝咖啡是一种和像勃拉姆斯和伏尔泰那样的艺术家、哲学家的浪漫生活联系的方式。
Hillary: it sure is. Drinking coffee is a way to connect with the romantic lives of artists and philosophers, like Brahms and Voltaire.
他说“当然，我没告诉任何人，不过现在也改变想法了”他引用伏尔泰的名言：“怀疑固然不好，但确信更为荒谬。”
Does he have a view?“Yes”, he says, “and I've never told anyone.But it changes too.” He quotes Voltaire: “Doubt is not a pleasant position, but certainty is absurd.
他说“当然，我没告诉任何人，不过现在也改变想法了”他引用伏尔泰的名言：“怀疑固然不好，但确信更为荒谬。”
Does he have a view?“Yes”, he says, “and I've never told anyone.But it changes too.” He quotes Voltaire: “Doubt is not a pleasant position, but certainty is absurd.
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