To the intelligent man with an interest in human nature it must often appear strange that so much of the energy of the scientific world has been spent on the study of the body and so little on the study of the mind.

  • -- Edward Thorndike 桑代克

对于一个对人性感兴趣的聪明人来说,科学界把如此多的精力花在对身体的研究上,而对心灵的研究却如此之少,这一定常常显得很奇怪。

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There is so much of good in human nature that men grow to like each other upon better acquaintance, and this points to another way in which we may strive to promote the peace of the world.

人性中有很多美好的东西,人们越了解彼此就越喜欢对方,这为我们提供了另一种途径,我们可以努力促进世界的和平。

The real difference between a man's scientific judgments about himself and the judgment of others about him is he has added sources of knowledge.

一个人对自己的科学判断和别人对他的判断的真正区别在于他增加了知识的来源。

I begin to perceive that I am a woman. What that is, heaven knows... the philosophy is yet to be written, there is a world to be explored.

我开始意识到我是一个女人。那是什么,天知道……哲学有待书写,世界有待探索。

What is called an acute knowledge of human nature is mostly nothing but the observer's own weaknesses reflected back from others.

所谓对人性的敏锐认识,基本上只是观察者自身的弱点在他人身上的反映。

When a good thing goes bad, It's not the end of the world, It's just the end of a world that you had with one girl.

当一件好事变坏,这不是世界末日,这只是你和一个女孩的世界末日。

Distinguishing the signal from the noise requires both scientific knowledge and self-knowledge.

区分信号和噪声需要科学知识和自我知识。