Superstition? Who can define the boundary line between the superstition of yesterday and the scientific fact of tomorrow?

  • -- Garrett Fort 加里特·福特

迷信?谁能确定昨天的迷信和明天的科学事实之间的界线呢?

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There is no scientific discoverer, no poet, no painter, no musician, who will not tell you that he found ready made his discovery or poem or picture - that it came to him from outside, and that he did not consciously create it from within.

没有一个科学的发现者,没有一个诗人,没有一个画家,没有一个音乐家不告诉你,他发现了现成的发现,无论是诗歌还是绘画,都是来自外部的,而不是他有意识地从内部创造出来的。

The story of my very first sale is the fact that I dreamed up a foolproof paper to cheat an insurance company out of several hundred thousand dollars.

我的第一次销售的故事是这样的:我想出了一张万无一失的纸,骗走了一家保险公司几十万美元。

In the absence of evidence, superstition. It's a Middle Ages thing. That's my theory anyway.

在缺乏证据的情况下,迷信。这是中世纪的事情。这就是我的理论。

Traditional market researchers are cold and calculating and scientific.

传统的市场研究人员冷酷、精于算计、科学。

I'm completely aware of the fact that I'm a control freak.

我完全意识到我是个控制狂。

Pulling the devil by the leg is a bad grip.

牵着魔鬼的腿是一种不好的握法。