For if any man who never saw fire proved by satisfactory arguments that fire burns. His hearer's mind would never be satisfied, nor would he avoid the fire until he put his hand in it that he might learn by experiment what argument taught.

  • -- Roger Bacon 培根

因为,如果一个从未见过火的人用令人满意的论据证明火是燃烧的。他的听众永远不会满足,除非他把手伸进火里,通过实验来学习论证所教的东西,否则他也不会避开火。

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The soundest argument will produce no more conviction in an empty head than the most superficial declamation; a feather and a guinea fall with equal velocity in a vacuum.

在一个头脑空空的人看来,最合理的论据也不会比最肤浅的说教更令人信服;羽毛和几内亚在真空中以同样的速度落下。

I would rather live in a world where my life is surrounded by mystery than live in a world so small that my mind could comprehend it.

我宁愿生活在一个充满神秘的世界里,也不愿生活在一个小到我的大脑可以理解的世界里。

Whenever nature leaves a hole in a person's mind, she generally plasters it over with a thick coat of self-conceit.

每当大自然在一个人的头脑中留下一个洞,她通常会用一层厚厚的自负的外衣把它盖上。

You can keep rummaging around until you find a song you like, but you can't predict whether it'll hit or not.

你可以一直翻找直到找到一首你喜欢的歌,但是你不能预测它是否会流行。

I'd like to help repair the earth's ecosystems, and to fully live until I'm fully dead.

我想帮助修复地球的生态系统,让自己活得充实,直到死去。

A handful of soldiers is always better than a mouthful of arguments.

一小撮士兵总比满口争论强。