Doubt is the incentive to truth and inquiry leads the way.

  • -- Hosea Ballou 马士

怀疑是追求真理的动力,探索是前进的道路。

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Every company, every boardroom in which I sit, has a plan, and they have objectives, goals, and a process. And to make it work, the pressure and incentive have to come from the top.

我所在的每一家公司,每一个董事会,都有一个计划,他们有目标,有目标,有过程。为了让它发挥作用,压力和激励必须来自最高层。

Love is free; to promise for ever to love the same woman is not less absurd than to promise to believe the same creed; such a vow in both cases excludes us from all inquiry.

爱是免费的;承诺永远爱同一个女人并不比承诺相信同一个信条更荒谬;在这两种情况下,这样的誓言把我们排除在一切调查之外。

Just because scientists have the knowledge to do it, the technology to do it, and some may even have a financial motive or other incentive to do it, does not make it right.

仅仅因为科学家有做这件事的知识,有做这件事的技术,而且有些人甚至有经济动机或其他动机去做这件事,并不能使它正确。

Great leaders are almost always great simplifiers, who can cut through argument, debate and doubt, to offer a solution everybody can understand.

伟大的领导者几乎都是伟大的简化主义者,他们能够突破争论、辩论和怀疑,提供一个每个人都能理解的解决方案。

Doubt comes in at the window when inquiry is denied at the door.

当询问在门口被拒绝时,怀疑从窗口进来。

Adam was the luckiest man in the world. He had no mother-in-law.

亚当是世界上最幸运的人。他没有岳母。

When we are in love we often doubt that which we most believe.

当我们恋爱时,我们常常怀疑我们最相信的东西。