Darwin based his theory on generalizations that were strictly empirical. You can go out and see that organisms do vary, that variations are inherited, and that every organism is capable of increasing its numbers in sufficiently favorable circumstances.

  • -- George C. Williams 乔治·威廉斯

达尔文的理论是建立在严格经验主义的概括基础上的。你可以走出去,看到生物体确实在变化,变异是遗传的,每一个生物体都有能力在足够有利的环境下增加自己的数量。

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Our empirical criterion for a series of theories is that it should produce new facts. The idea of growth and the concept of empirical character are soldered into one.

我们对一系列理论的经验标准是,它应该产生新的事实。成长的概念和经验的特性的概念是结合在一起的。

The smart way to keep people passive and obedient is to strictly limit the spectrum of acceptable opinion, but allow very lively debate within that spectrum.

让人们保持被动和顺从的明智方法是严格限制可接受意见的范围,但允许在这个范围内进行非常活跃的辩论。

An idea is always a generalization, and generalization is a property of thinking. To generalize means to think.

一个想法总是一个概括,概括是思维的一种属性。概括就是思考。

Im strictly for Stevenson. I don't dig the intellectual bit, but I'm telling you, man, he knows the most.

我完全支持史蒂文森。我不懂什么是智慧,但我告诉你,伙计,他知道的最多。

We would be in a nasty position indeed if empirical science were the only kind of science possible.

如果经验科学是唯一可能的科学,我们将会处于一个非常糟糕的境地。

All generalizations are dangerous, even this one.

所有的概括都是危险的,即使是这个。