The value of a principle is the number of things it will explain.

  • -- Ralph Waldo Emerson 拉尔夫·沃尔多·爱默生

原则的价值在于它能解释的事情的数量。

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Mr. Darwin contributes some striking and ingenious instances of the way in which the principle partially affects the chain, or rather network of life, even to the total obliteration of certain meshes.

达尔文先生提供了一些惊人而巧妙的例子,说明了这个原理是如何部分地影响生命的链条,或者说是网络的,甚至是某些网格的完全消失。

Letting go of things and not being afraid of being ridiculous or over the top - I think that's the main thing for me to work on.

放下事情,不要害怕被嘲笑或被超越——我认为这是我要做的主要事情。

People have their own opinions but sometimes with the media things get chopped up and cut around to make stories out of it.

人们有他们自己的观点,但有时与媒体的事情被切碎和削减出来的故事。

No one ever taught me and I can't teach anyone. If you can't explain it, how can you take credit for it?

没有人教过我,我也不能教任何人。如果你不能解释,你怎么能把它归功于你呢?

Universal suffrage is sound in principle. The radical element is right.

普选在原则上是合理的。基本元素是正确的。

Understanding sometimes is not enough to explain something.

有时候仅仅理解是不够的。