Fundamental ideas are not a consequence of experience, but a result of the particular constitution and activity of the mind, which is independent of all experience in its origin, though constantly combined with experience in its exercise.

  • -- William Whewell 惠威尔

基本思想不是经验的结果,而是头脑的特定结构和活动的结果,这种结构和活动独立于一切经验的起源,尽管在实践中不断地与经验相结合。

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It is only a man's own fundamental thoughts that have truth and life in them. For it is these that he really and completely understands. To read the thoughts of others is like taking the remains of someone else's meal, like putting on the discarded clothes of a stranger.

只有一个人的基本思想中才有真理和生命。因为这是他真正完全理解的。读别人的思想,就像吃别人吃剩的饭,就像穿陌生人丢弃的衣服。

There is a fundamental situation in which the country has reached rock bottom, that a mother can't send her children out of the house in the morning. The country has reached rock bottom and this needs to be changed.

有一个基本的情况,这个国家已经到了最低点,一个母亲不能在早上把她的孩子送出门。这个国家已经跌到了谷底,这一点需要改变。

It's not so much that I got that idea at some point, it came up naturally because of the improvisational nature of the story I was telling.

并不是说我在某个时候有了这个想法,而是因为我所讲的故事是即兴创作的。

An absolutely new idea is one of the rarest things known to man.

一个全新的想法是人类所知的最稀有的东西之一。