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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The debt limits have to come down. The whole world of debt has to be changed as far as this country is concerned. We have to create jobs and we have to create them rapidly because if we don't things are just going to head in a direction that's going to be almost impossible to recover from.

债务上限必须降低。就这个国家而言,整个世界的债务都必须改变。我们必须创造就业,而且必须迅速创造就业,因为如果我们不这样做,事情就会朝着一个几乎不可能复苏的方向发展。

Friendship is unnecessary, like philosophy, like art... It has no survival value; rather it is one of those things that give value to survival.

友谊是多余的,像哲学,像艺术……它没有生存价值;相反,它是那些赋予生存价值的东西之一。

Book tours and research provide a lot of travel - too much, I sometimes think, but we do take vacations.

预订旅行和研究提供了很多旅行——有时我觉得太多了,但我们确实会度假。

From its earliest days, stem cell research has been important to the people of Wisconsin.

从早期开始,干细胞研究对威斯康辛人就很重要。

It is the direction and not the magnitude which is to be taken into consideration.

应该考虑的是方向,而不是大小。

I'm so trying to give up meat.

我真想戒掉吃肉。