In the discovery of secret things and in the investigation of hidden causes, stronger reasons are obtained from sure experiments and demonstrated arguments than from probable conjectures and the opinions of philosophical speculators of the common sort.

  • -- William Gilbert 威廉·吉尔伯特

在发现秘密的事物和研究隐藏的原因时,从可靠的实验和论证中得到的理由比从一般哲学投机者的推测和意见中得到的理由更充分。

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Over the years, a number of other intriguing experimental ideas and areas of investigation have been the objects of my attention, and I have devoted some time and effort to exploring the inherent possbilities.

多年来,许多其他有趣的实验想法和研究领域一直是我关注的对象,我花了一些时间和精力来探索固有的可能性。

The investigations which have seemingly been the most purely abstract have often formed the foundation of the most important changes or improvements in the conditions of human life.

似乎是最纯粹抽象的调查往往构成了人类生活条件中最重要的变化或改善的基础。

You will have to experiment and try things out for yourself and you will not be sure of what you are doing. That's all right, you are feeling your way into the thing.

你将不得不自己去试验和尝试,你将不确定你在做什么。没关系,你是在摸索。

To work our way towards a shared language once again, we must first learn how to discover patterns which are deep, and capable of generating life.

要再次朝着共享语言的方向努力,我们必须首先学会如何发现深层次的、能够产生生命的模式。

I don't think that somebody who is observing or predicting behavior should also be participating in the 'experiment.'

我不认为观察或预测行为的人也应该参与“实验”。

Ideally a book would have no order in it, and the reader would have to discover his own.

理想的情况是,一本书没有顺序,读者必须找到自己的顺序。

Ideas that require people to reorganize their picture of the world provoke hostility.

那些要求人们重新组织自己对世界的看法会引发敌意。

In science fiction, you can also test out your own realities.

在科幻小说中,你也可以测试你自己的现实。