We look at Widener Library and see a great edifice, a backdrop of giant columns where photos are taken and 27 steps are worn down ever so slightly by the feet of a century of students and scholars. We also see a repository of learning, with 57 miles of shelving at the heart of a library system of some 17 million books, a monument to reason and knowledge, to the collection and preservation of the widest possible range of beliefs, and experiences, and facts that fuel free inquiry and our constantly evolving understanding.
我們看到的懷德納圖書館是一座高大的地標性建築，巨大的柱子經常作為照片背景；圖書館前共有27級臺階，100年來，哈佛師生從這裡走過，在臺階上留下了輕輕的印痕。懷德納圖書館是知識的寶庫，書架加起來全長有57英里，上面擺放著1700萬冊藏書，是圖書館的核心所在。這座圖書館是理性和知識的豐碑，這裡收藏著最為廣泛的信念、經歷和事實，激勵著人們自由探索，不斷更新認知。
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A vehicle for Veritas—for exploring the path to truth wherever it may lead. A tribute to the belief that knowledge matters, that facts matter—in the present moment, as a basis for the informed decisions of individuals, societies, and nations; and for the future, as the basis for new insight. As James Madison wrote in 1822, a people who mean to be their own Governors, must arm themselves with the power that knowledge gives. Or as early 20th-century civil rights activist Nannie Helen Burroughs put it, “education is democracy’s life insurance.”
不管真理走向何處，這座圖書館都是探尋真理之路的載體。圖書館體現了知識和事實至關重要這一信念：在當下，知識和事實是個人、社會和國家進行明智決策的基礎；在未來，它們則是探索新知的基礎。正如詹姆斯·麥迪遜（James Madison）1822年所寫：一個民族要想實現自治成為自己的“總督”，就必須用知識賦予的力量來武裝自己。20世紀早期的民權活動家南妮·海倫·寶來(Nannie Helen Burroughs)也曾說過：“教育是民主的人壽保險
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