The only thing that permits human beings to collaborate with one another in a truly open-ended way is their willingness to have their beliefs modified by new facts. Only openness to evidence and argument will secure a common world for us.

  • -- Sam Harris 山姆·哈里斯

唯一允许人类以一种真正开放的方式彼此合作的是他们愿意让自己的信念被新的事实所改变。只有对证据和论点持开放态度,我们才能建立一个共同的世界。

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Tolerance, openness to argument, openness to self-doubt, willingness to see other people's points of view - these are very liberal and enlightened values that people are right to hold, but we can't allow them to delude us to the point where we can't recognise people who are needlessly perpetrating human misery.

宽容、开放的观点,开放自我怀疑,愿意看到别人的观点——这些都是非常自由和文明的价值,人们是对的,但是我们不能让他们欺骗我们,我们不能承认犯下不必要的人类苦难的人。

The most compelling reason for most people to buy a computer for the home will be to link it to a nationwide communications network. We're just in the beginning stages of what will be a truly remarkable breakthrough for most people - as remarkable as the telephone.

大多数人购买家用电脑最引人注目的原因将是将其连接到一个全国性的通讯网络。对于大多数人来说,我们正处于一个真正非凡的突破的初级阶段——就像电话一样非凡。

Compassionate action emerges from the sense of openness, connectedness, and discernment you have created.

富有同情心的行动来自于你所创造的开放、联系和洞察力。

No matter what your choices are, you truly have no control about what people think of you.

不管你的选择是什么,你真的无法控制别人对你的看法。