You have to test your hypothesis against other theories. Certainty in the face of complex situations is very dangerous.

  • -- Richard Holbrooke 霍尔布鲁克

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。

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Fundamentalists are panicked by the apparent disintegration of the family, the disappearance of certainty and the decay of morality. Fear leads them to ask, if we cannot trust the Bible, what can we trust?

原教旨主义者对家庭的明显解体、确定性的消失和道德的堕落感到恐慌。恐惧使他们问,如果我们不能相信圣经,我们能相信什么?

It is only of life on Earth, however, that one can speak with any certainty. It seems to me that all life on Earth, the sum total of life upon the Earth, has purpose.

然而,只有关于地球上的生命,人们才能有把握地说出来。在我看来,地球上所有的生命,地球上所有生命的总和,都是有目的的。

Oh, there's nothing more dangerous in life at getting hurt at than love itself. People are hurt in love affairs and never recover, more than a boxing match.

哦,生活中没有什么比爱本身更容易受到伤害了。人们在恋爱中受伤,永远无法恢复,就像一场拳击比赛。

Property in man, always morally unjust, has become nationally dangerous.

人类的财产,在道德上总是不公平的,已经成为国家的危险。