The natural cause of the human mind is certainly from credulity to skepticism.

  • -- Thomas Jefferson 托马斯·杰斐逊

人类心灵的自然原因当然是从轻信到怀疑。

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Certainly almost everything we do and think is colored in some way by memes, but it is important to realize that not everything we experience is a meme. If I walk down the street and see a tree, the basic perception that's going on is not memetic.

当然,我们做的和想的几乎每件事都在某种程度上受到模因的影响,但重要的是要意识到,并非我们经历的每件事都是模因。如果我走在街上看到一棵树,最基本的感知并不是模因。

We can certainly go further than cats, but why should it be that our brains are somehow so suited to the universe that our brains will be able to understand the deepest workings?

我们当然可以比猫走得更远,但为什么我们的大脑在某种程度上如此适合宇宙,以至于我们的大脑能够理解最深层的运作方式呢?

Blind faith, no matter how passionately expressed, will not suffice. Science for its part will test relentlessly every assumption about the human condition.

盲目的信仰,不管表达得多么热烈,都是不够的。科学本身将无情地检验关于人类状况的每一个假设。

A mind at liberty to reflect on its own observations, if it produce nothing useful to the world, seldom fails of entertainment to itself.

一个自由思考自己观察到的东西的头脑,如果对世界没有任何有用的东西,也很少不自娱自乐。

You're just human so i understood your mistake but when you made the same mistake twice i understood that you were just an ass.

你只是个普通人,所以我理解你的错误,但当你犯了两次同样的错误时,我明白你只是个笨蛋。

Great men of action... never mind on occasion being ridiculous; in a sense it is part of their job, and at times they all are.

伟大的实干家……别介意有时显得可笑;从某种意义上说,这是他们工作的一部分,有时他们都是。