Complex, statistically improbable things are by their nature more difficult to explain than simple, statistically probable things.

  • -- Richard Dawkins 理查德·道金斯

从本质上讲,复杂的、统计上不可能发生的事情比简单的、统计上可能发生的事情更难解释。

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Faith may be defined briefly as an illogical belief in the occurrence of the improbable.

信仰可以简单地定义为对不可能发生的事情的不合逻辑的信仰。

A man lives by believing something: not by debating and arguing about many things.

一个人靠相信某件事来生活,而不是靠对许多事情争论不休。

I can explain that shot. Arnold moved his wallet to the other pocket.

我可以解释那个镜头。阿诺德把钱包挪到另一个口袋里。

If you can't explain it simply, you don't understand it well enough.

如果你不能简单地解释它,你就不能很好地理解它。

It's easy to focus on the things that divide us. Sometimes too easy.

我们很容易把注意力集中在那些分裂我们的事情上。有时太容易了。

Nothing is improbable until it moves into past tense.

没有什么是不可能的,除非它变成过去式。