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The very essence of rationalism is that it assumes that the reason is the highest faculty in man and the lord of all the rest.
理性主义的本质在于它假定理性是人类最高的能力，是所有其他能力的主宰。
— Lyman Abbott 总编辑阿博特
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更多好句 ↗We live on an island surrounded by a sea of ignorance. As our island of knowledge grows, so does the shore of our ignorance.
我们生活在一个被无知之海包围的岛上。知识之岛越长，无知之岸也越长。
John Archibald Wheeler
约翰·阿奇博尔德·惠勒
The belief that we can start with pure observations alone, without anything in the nature of a theory, is absurd.
认为我们可以从纯粹的观察开始，而不需要任何理论性质的东西，这种想法是荒谬的。
Karl Popper
波普尔
Science is a way of trying not to fool yourself. The principle is that you must not fool yourself, and you are the easiest person to fool.
科学是一种不自欺欺人的方法。原则是你不能欺骗自己，你是最容易被欺骗的人。
Richard P. Feynman
理查德·费曼
Where there is much to learn, there of necessity will be much arguing, much writing, many opinions; for opinion in good men is but knowledge in the making.
哪里有许多东西要学，哪里就必然有许多争论，许多写作，许多意见;因为好人的意见不过是正在形成的知识。
John Milton
约翰·米尔顿
You have to test your hypothesis against other theories. Certainty in the face of complex situations is very dangerous.
你必须用其他理论来检验你的假设。在复杂的情况下，确定性是非常危险的。
Richard Holbrooke
霍尔布鲁克
Every individual ought to know at least one poet from cover to cover: if not as a guide through the world, then as a yardstick for the language.
每个人都应该从头到尾至少了解一位诗人:如果不是作为世界的向导，那么就是作为语言的标准。
Joseph Brodsky
约瑟夫·布罗斯基