The system becomes more coherent as it is further extended. The elements which we require for explaining a new class of facts are already contained in our system. In false theories, the contrary is the case.

  • -- William Whewell 惠威尔

随着系统的进一步扩展,它变得更加连贯。我们解释一类新的事实所需要的要素已经包含在我们的系统中。在错误的理论中,情况恰恰相反。

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Our capital system is haunted by the demon of error: error in determining guilt and error in determining who among the guilty deserves to die. What effect was race having? What effect was poverty having?

我们的资本体系被错误的恶魔所困扰:错误地认定有罪,错误地认定有罪的人当中谁应该被处死。种族有什么影响?贫穷有什么影响?

One of the things that has to be faced is the process of waiting to change the system, how much we have got to do to find out who we are, where we have come from and where we are going.

我们必须面对的一件事是等待改变这个系统的过程,我们要做多少才能发现我们是谁,我们从哪里来,我们要去哪里。

We can't really make a living doing comic books, despite the fact that would be an awfully fun way to make a living.

我们不能靠写漫画来谋生,尽管这是一种非常有趣的谋生方式。

Equality is the soul of liberty there is, in fact. No liberty without it.

事实上,平等是自由的灵魂。没有自由就没有自由。