He did not arrive at this conclusion by the decent process of quiet, logical deduction, nor yet by the blinding flash of glorious intuition, but by the shoddy, untidy process halfway between the two by which one usually gets to know things.

  • -- Margery Allingham 阿林厄姆

他得出这个结论,既不是靠平静的、合乎逻辑的推理,也不是靠闪光的、令人眼花缭乱的直觉,而是靠一种粗陋的、杂乱无章的、介于两者之间的过程,人们通常是通过这种过程来认识事物的。

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Trust your hunches. They're usually based on facts filed away just below the conscious level.

相信你的直觉。它们通常是建立在低于意识水平的事实基础上的。

World domination is such an ugly phrase. I prefer to call it world optimisation.

统治世界是一个如此丑陋的词语。我更愿意称之为世界优化。

It is through science that we prove, but through intuition that we discover.

我们是通过科学来证明的,但我们是通过直觉来发现的。

Happiness is not an ideal of reason, but of imagination.

幸福不是理性的理想,而是想象的理想。

Reason and judgment are the qualities of a leader.

理智和判断是领导者的品质。

I think Veblen had an interest in logic.

我认为维布伦对逻辑很感兴趣。