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We think of our eyes as video cameras and our brains as blank tapes to be filled with sensory inputs.
我们认为我们的眼睛是摄像机，我们的大脑是空白的磁带，充满了感官输入。
— Michael Shermer 迈克尔·舍默
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更多好句 ↗If you would understand anything, observe its beginning and its development.
如果你想了解任何事情，观察它的开始和发展。
Aristotle
亚里士多德
Man masters nature not by force but by understanding. This is why science has succeeded where magic failed: because it has looked for no spell to cast on nature.
人驾驭自然不是靠武力，而是靠理智。这就是为什么科学在魔法失败的地方取得了成功:因为它没有向大自然施咒。
Jacob Bronowski
布鲁诺维奇
If you never ask yourself any questions about the meaning of a passage, you cannot expect the book to give you any insight you do not already possess.
如果你从来没有问过自己关于一篇文章的意义的任何问题，你就不能指望这本书能给你任何你尚未拥有的洞察力。
Mortimer J. Adler
莫蒂默·杰尔姆·阿德勒
This grey spirit yearning in desire To follow knowledge like a sinking star, Beyond the utmost bound of human thought.
这种灰色的精神渴望追随知识，就像一颗下沉的星星，超越人类思想的极限。
Alfred Tennyson
阿尔弗雷德·丁尼生
If there be anything that can be called genius, it consists chiefly in ability to give that attention to a subject which keeps it steadily in the mind, till we have surveyed it accurately on all sides.
如果有什么东西可以被称为天才的话，那就是把注意力集中在一件事上的能力。这件事能使我们把它牢牢地记在心里，直到我们从各个方面对它进行了准确的考察。
Robert Quillen
罗伯特·奎伦
No story comes from nowhere; new stories are born from old-it is the new combinations that make them new.
没有故事是凭空而来的;新故事从旧故事中诞生——是新的组合使它们成为新的。
Salman Rushdie
鲁西迪