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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We have no reason to think that climate change is harmful if you look at the world as a whole. Most places, in fact, are better off being warmer than being colder. And historically, the really bad times for the environment and for people have been the cold periods rather than the warm periods.

如果你把世界看作一个整体,我们没有理由认为气候变化是有害的。事实上,在大多数地方,变暖比变冷要好。从历史上看,对环境和人类来说,真正糟糕的时期是寒冷时期,而不是温暖时期。

Trust your own instinct. Your mistakes might as well be your own, instead of someone else's.

相信你自己的直觉。你的错误可能是你自己的,而不是别人的。

He who will not reason is a bigot; he who cannot is a fool; and he who dares not is a slave.

不讲道理的人是偏执狂;不会的人是傻瓜;不敢的人是奴隶。

Follow your intuition. Be smart, be brave, tell the truth & don't take any shit.

跟随你的直觉。要聪明,要勇敢,要讲真话,不要拿狗屎。

Pain always produces logic, which is very bad for you.

痛苦总是产生逻辑,这对你是非常不好的。

Logic is the art of going wrong with confidence.

逻辑是自信出错的艺术。