We are least open to precise knowledge concerning the things we are most vehement about.

  • -- Eric Hoffer 埃里克·霍弗

对于那些我们最热衷的事情,我们最不愿意接受精确的知识。

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The vast literature concerning whistleblowers shows that, far from weird extremists, they are really quite ordinary people: male and female, young and old, junior and senior, no more nerdy or obsessive than most hard workers.

大量关于告密者的文献表明,他们远非古怪的极端分子,而是相当普通的人:男性和女性,年轻人和老年人,初中和高中,并不比大多数努力工作的人更书呆子或强迫症。

I realise that in this undertaking I place myself in a certain opposition to views widely held concerning the mathematical infinite and to opinions frequently defended on the nature of numbers.

我意识到,在这项事业中,我把自己置身于一种与广泛持有的有关数学无限大的观点和经常为数字的本质辩护的观点相反的立场。