In questions of science, the authority of a thousand is not worth the humble reasoning of a single individual.

  • -- Galileo Galilei 伽利略伽利略

在科学问题上,一千人的权威并不值得一个人的简单推理。

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If you want a free society, teach your children what oppression tastes like. Tell them how many miracles it takes to get from here to there. Above all, encourage them to ask questions. Teach them to think for themselves.

如果你想要一个自由的社会,教你的孩子什么是压迫的滋味。告诉他们从这里到那里需要多少奇迹。最重要的是,鼓励他们问问题。教他们独立思考。

The true knowledge or science which exists nowhere but in the mind itself, has no other entity at all besides intelligibility; and therefore whatsoever is clearly intelligible, is absolutely true.

真正的知识或科学只存在于心灵本身,除了可解性之外,根本没有别的实体;因此任何清晰易懂的东西都是绝对正确的。

I suppose one has a greater sense of intellectual degradation after an interview with a doctor than from any human experience.

我想,一个人在接受医生的采访后,智力退化的程度比任何人类经历都要严重。

I tried to use the questions and answers as an armature on which to build a sculpture of genuine conversation.

我试着用这些问题和答案作为一个电枢,在上面建立一个真实对话的雕塑。