Reason and free inquiry are the only effectual agents against error.

  • -- Thomas Jefferson 托马斯·杰斐逊

理性和自由的探索是防止错误的唯一有效手段。

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I was going to shave it. It went in two parts. I got a bob first but it kept falling all over my face. Then it was off, short. The main reason it was long was because my mother cut it short when I was little and I was trying to make up for that.

我正要刮胡子呢。它分为两部分。我先有一个波波头,但它一直落在我脸上。然后就关了,很短。长头发的主要原因是我小的时候妈妈把头发剪短了,我想弥补这一点。

The folly of mistaking a paradox for a discovery, a metaphor for a proof, a torrent of verbiage for a spring of capital truths, and oneself for an oracle, is inborn in us.

错误地把悖论当作发现,把暗喻当作证明,把滔滔不绝的空话当作真理的源泉,把自己当作神谕,这些都是我们与生俱来的愚蠢。

The world presents enough problems if you believe it to be a world of law and order; do not add to them by believing it to be a world of miracles.

如果你相信这是一个法治的世界,那么这个世界就会出现足够多的问题;不要相信这是一个充满奇迹的世界。

I had the opportunity to go to law school, and my dad, who was an accountant, couldn't believe I wanted to walk away from that and start cooking.

我有机会去上法律学校,我的父亲是一名会计师,他不敢相信我想要离开那里,开始做饭。