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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I didn't know how much I cared about having a woman on the court until the day there was a woman on the court.

我不知道我有多在乎有一个女人在球场上,直到有一天有一个女人在球场上。

All the arguments which are brought to represent poverty as no evil show it evidently to be a great evil.

所有被拿来代表贫穷没有罪恶的论点都清楚地表明贫穷是一种大罪恶。

You know, let a few years go by until I hit my midlife crisis. Then that can be documented on film.

你知道,让几年过去,直到我的中年危机。然后可以用胶片记录下来。

My mind is always racing, and always going and always working, and it's a gift and a curse.

我的大脑总是在不停地跑,不停地跑,不停地工作,这是一种恩赐,也是一种诅咒。

Argument is meant to reveal the truth, not to create it.

争论的目的是揭示真理,而不是创造真理。

Never mind a world that can't see past brutality.

不要在意一个看不到过去暴行的世界。