If you learn one thing from having lived through decades of changing views, it is that all predictions are necessarily false.

  • -- M. H. Abrams 艾布拉姆斯

如果你从经历了几十年不断变化的观点中学到一件事,那就是所有的预测都必然是错误的。

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Having established that good ideas do indeed come in from the cold, start on the fringes and become mainstream, can we make any predictions about what the next move will be?

既然已经确定好主意确实是从冷的地方来的,从边缘开始并成为主流,我们能预测下一步会是什么吗?

Key metaphors help determine what and how we perceive and how we think about our perceptions.

关键的隐喻有助于决定我们感知什么、如何感知以及如何思考我们的感知。

I am saying that all predictions concerning climate are highly uncertain.

我的意思是所有关于气候的预测都是高度不确定的。

I don't think Bill is a role model for anyon.

我不认为比尔是任何人的榜样。