Science is the knowledge of consequences, and dependence of one fact upon another.

  • -- Thomas Hobbes 托马斯·霍布斯

科学是关于结果的知识,是一个事实对另一个事实的依赖。

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Our parents were very strict. Not in a brutal or awful way, but there were definite rules, such as after six on a school night you didn't go out, and at weekends you had to be home by a certain time. It wasn't particularly sheltered, but we were well brought-up.

我们的父母非常严格。不是以一种残忍或可怕的方式,而是有明确的规则,比如在学校晚上六点以后你不出去,周末你必须在某个时间回家。这里没有特别的庇护,但我们都是受过良好教育的。

Dying before dying has two important consequences: It liberates the individual from the fear of death and influences the actual experience of dying at the time of biological demise.

临终前的死亡有两个重要的后果:它将个体从死亡的恐惧中解放出来,并影响到生物死亡时的实际死亡体验。

A human being fashions his consequences as surely as he fashions his goods or his dwelling his goods or his dwelling. Nothing that he says, thinks or does is without consequences.

一个人创造他的结果,就像他创造他的货物或他的住所一样,他创造他的货物或他的住所。他说的、想的和做的任何事都不会没有后果。

Science is facts; just as houses are made of stones, so is science made of facts; but a pile of stones is not a house and a collection of facts is not necessarily science.

科学是事实;正如房子是石头做的一样,科学也是由事实组成的;但是一堆石头并不是一座房子,收集的事实也不一定是科学。

The reason of the close concurrence between the individual's progress and that of the race appears, therefore, when we remember the dependence of each upon the other.

因此,当我们记得个人的进步与种族的进步是互相依存的时候,我们就会发现两者之间的密切一致的原因。

The dependence of one people upon another, even for the benefits of legislation, is the deepest source of national weakness.

一个民族对另一个民族的依赖,甚至是为了立法的利益,是国家软弱的最深层根源。