Let one persuade many, and he becomes confirmed and convinced, and cares for no better evidence.

  • -- Chauncey Wright 他的学生赖特

只要一个人说服了许多人,他就会变得坚定和确信,而不会在意任何更好的证据。

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It is better for a woman to compete impersonally in society, as men do, than to compete for dominance in her own home with her husband, compete with her neighbors for empty status, and so smother her son that he cannot compete at all.

女人与其像男人一样,在社会上毫无感情地竞争,还不如在自己家里和丈夫竞争优势,和邻居竞争空虚的地位,把儿子闷死,使他根本无法竞争。

Such evidence is not the only kind which produces belief; though positivism maintains that it is the only kind which ought to produce so high a degree of confidence as all minds have or can be made to have through their agreements.

这样的证据并不是产生信念的唯一证据;虽然实证主义坚持认为,它是唯一一种应该产生如此高程度的信心,因为所有的头脑都有或可以通过他们的协议。

Life does not accommodate you, it shatters you. It is meant to, and it couldn't do it better. Every seed destroys its container or else there would be no fruition.

生活不能包容你,它会让你崩溃。这是命中注定的,而且它不能做得更好。每粒种子都会破坏它的容器,否则就不会有果实。

It has yet to be shown by direct biochemical methods, as opposed to the indirect genetic evidence mentioned earlier, that the code is indeed a triplet code.

与之前提到的间接遗传证据相反,直接的生化方法还没有证明这个密码确实是一个三重密码。

Caress your dog, and he'll spoil your clothes.

抚摸你的狗,它会弄坏你的衣服。