If they are, then the only ultimate truths are the particulars of concrete experience, and no postulate or general assumption is inherent in science until its proceedings become systematic, or the truths already reached give direction to further research.

  • -- Chauncey Wright 他的学生赖特

如果是这样,那么唯一的根本真理就是具体经验的特殊性,在科学的进展成为系统的,或者已经得到的真理为进一步的研究指明了方向之前,科学中不存在任何固有的假定或一般的假定。

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Poetry has the virtue of being able to say twice as much as prose in half the time, and the drawback, if you do not give it your full attention, of seeming to say half as much in twice the time.

诗歌的优点是能够在一半的时间里说两倍于散文的话,缺点是,如果你没有把全部的注意力放在诗歌上,那么你似乎在两倍的时间里说了一半的话。

Coal research and development provides huge benefits for the nation, and pay for itself many times over through taxes flowing back to the Treasury from expanded economic activity.

煤炭研究和开发为国家提供了巨大的利益,并通过从扩大的经济活动中回流到财政部的税收为自己支付了许多倍。

If you have an impulse, not if you're going to ruin someone elses' scene, if you have an impulse of a funny little add-on or taking something in a weird direction, try it.

如果你有一种冲动,而不是想要破坏别人的场景,如果你有一种冲动,想要添加一些有趣的东西,或者想要做一些奇怪的事情,那就试试吧。

Ordinary photons do have spin, they have a notion of helicity so they spin around their direction on motion.

普通光子确实有自旋,它们有螺旋性的概念,所以它们在运动时绕着自己的方向旋转。

I wholeheartedly support umbilical stem cell research, but also support embryonic stem cell research.

我全力支持脐带血干细胞研究,也支持胚胎干细胞研究。

Never give meaning to a little act of sweetness. It might give you a wrong impression or expectation.

永远不要为小小的甜蜜举动赋予意义。它可能给你一个错误的印象或期望。