Rather than have it the principal thing in my son's mind, I would gladly have him think that the sun went round the earth, and that the stars were so many spangles set in the bright blue firmament.

  • -- Thomas Arnold 汤玛斯·阿诺德

我宁愿让他认为太阳绕着地球转,星星在明亮的蓝色天空中闪烁着那么多的光芒,也不愿让他把这件事放在心上。

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Science is based on the possibility of objectivity, on the possibility of different people checking out for themselves the observations made by others. Without that possibility, there is no empirical principle capable of deciding between different arguments and theories.

科学是建立在客观可能性的基础上的,是建立在不同的人自己检验别人的观察结果的可能性上的。没有这种可能性,就没有能够在不同的论点和理论之间做出决定的经验主义原则。

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。

Fantasy is an exercise bicycle for the mind. It might not take you anywhere, but it tones up the muscles that can. Of course, I could be wrong.

幻想是心灵的运动自行车。它可能不会带你去任何地方,但它可以锻炼肌肉。当然,我也可能是错的。

What is broken is broken - and I'd rather remember it as it was at its best than mend it and see the broken places as long as I lived.

破碎的就是破碎的——我宁愿记住它最好的样子,也不愿把它修补好,然后一辈子看着那些破碎的地方。

It may seem a strange principle to enunciate as the very first requirement in a hospital that it should do the sick no harm.

这似乎是一个奇怪的原则,阐明作为医院的第一要求,它应该不伤害病人。

I don't think I'm easy to talk about. I've got a very irregular head. And I'm not anything that you think I am anyway.

我觉得我不太好说话。我的头很不规则。我也不是你想的那种人。

So your emotional state really has a lot to do with what you're thinking about and what you're paying attention to.

所以你的情绪状态和你在想什么,你在关注什么有很大关系。

The first and simplest emotion which we discover in the human mind, is curiosity.

我们在人类头脑中发现的第一种最简单的情感是好奇心。