There is no waste of time in life like that of making explanations.

  • -- Benjamin Disraeli 本杰明·迪斯雷利

生活中没有像解释那样浪费时间的事。

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The truly privileged theories are not the ones referring to any particular scale of size or complexity, nor the ones situated at any particular level of the predictive hierarchy, but the ones that contain the deepest explanations.

真正享有特权的理论不是指任何特定规模或复杂性的理论,也不是位于预测层次结构的任何特定层次的理论,而是包含最深刻解释的理论。

Eventually, I believe, current attempts to understand the mind by analogy with man-made computers that can perform superbly some of the same external tasks as conscious beings will be recognized as a gigantic waste of time.

最终,我相信,目前试图用人造计算机来理解大脑的尝试将被认为是巨大的浪费时间。人造计算机可以出色地执行一些与有意识的人相同的外部任务。

I understand what happens to the brain when people are near death, and I had always believed there were good scientific explanations for the heavenly out-of-body journeys described by those who narrowly escaped death.

我理解濒死之人的大脑会发生什么,我一直相信,对于那些死里逃生的人所描述的天堂般的灵魂出窍之旅,有很好的科学解释。

Some of these kids just don't plain know how good they are: how smart and how much they have to say. You can tell them. You can shine that light on them, one human interaction at a time.

有些孩子根本不知道自己有多优秀:有多聪明,有多少话要说。你可以告诉他们。你可以把那道光照在他们身上,一次一个人的互动。

Legislation that would withhold funding for the United Nations is fundamentally flawed in concept and practice, sets us back, is self-defeating, and doesn't work.

阻止为联合国提供资金的立法在概念和实践上存在根本性缺陷,使我们倒退,弄巧成拙,而且不起作用。

The first time I showed the tattoo, it was big news in the newspaper: 'She has a tattoo with a snake.' It's not a snake.

我第一次展示这个纹身时,它在报纸上引起了轰动:“她有一个蛇纹身。“它不是蛇。

All we need is the right major crisis, and the nations will accept the New World Order.

我们所需要的是正确的重大危机,各国将接受新的世界秩序。

A day without laughter is a day wasted.

没有笑声的一天是浪费的一天。