We cannot observe external things without some degree of Thought; nor can we reflect upon our Thoughts, without being influenced in the course of our reflection by the Things which we have observed.

  • -- William Whewell 惠威尔

没有一定程度的思考,我们无法观察外部事物;我们也不能不受我们所观察到的事物的影响而反思我们的思想。

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We may take it to be the accepted idea that the Mosaic books were not handed down to us for our instruction in scientific knowledge, and that it is our duty to ground our scientific beliefs upon observation and inference, unmixed with considerations of a different order.

我们可以接受这样一种观点,即摩西书并不是为了传授我们科学知识而流传下来的,我们有责任把我们的科学信念建立在观察和推理的基础上,不掺杂其他顺序的考虑。

Surely it is time to examine into the meaning of words and the nature of things, and to arrive at simple facts, not received upon the dictum of learned authorities, but upon attentive personal observation of what is passing around us.

当然,现在是时候研究语言的意义和事物的本质,并得出一些简单的事实,这些事实不是根据有学问的权威的格言而得到的,而是根据我们对周围发生的事情的仔细观察而得到的。

When a nation gives birth to a man who is able to produce a great thought, another is born who is able to understand and admire it

当一个民族诞生了一个能产生伟大思想的人,另一个民族也诞生了一个能理解和欣赏伟大思想的人

Well, first of all, going off with dianetics was based upon a thought of mine.

首先,和戴尼提私奔是基于我的一个想法。