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The theory that can absorb the greatest number of facts, and persist in doing so, generation after generation, through all changes of opinion and detail, is the one that must rule all observation.

  • -- Adam Smith 亚当·史密斯

能够吸收最多的事实，并坚持这样做，一代又一代，通过所有的意见和细节的变化，是一个理论，必须统治所有的观察。

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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。

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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.

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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Technology is a gift of God. After the gift of life it is perhaps the greatest of God's gifts. It is the mother of civilizations, of arts and of sciences.

科技是上帝的礼物。在生命的恩赐之后，这也许是神最大的恩赐。它是文明、艺术和科学之母。

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When a torrent sweeps a man against a boulder, you must expect him to scream, and you need not be surprised if the scream is sometimes a theory.

当激流把一个人冲到一块大石头上时，你必须期待他会尖叫，如果尖叫有时只是一种理论，你也不必感到惊讶。

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Theoretical principals must sometimes give way for the sake of practical advantages.

理论原则有时必须为实际利益让路。

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The greatest pleasures are only narrowly separated from disgust.

最大的快乐与厌恶只有一线之隔。

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