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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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Conflict is the gadfly of thought. It stirs us to observation and memory. It instigates to invention. It shocks us out of sheeplike passivity, and sets us at noting and contriving.

冲突是思想的牛虻。它激励我们去观察和记忆。它促进发明。它使我们摆脱了盲从的被动状态，使我们善于注意和设计。

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Europe is so well gardened that it resembles a work of art, a scientific theory, a neat metaphysical system. Man has re-created Europe in his own image.

欧洲是如此精心打理，就像一件艺术品，一个科学的理论，一个整洁的形而上学体系。人类按照自己的形象重新创造了欧洲。

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It's the things you fight for and struggle with before earning that have the greatest worth.

你在挣钱之前为之奋斗和奋斗的东西才是最有价值的。

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You have to have some kind of power of observation, almost like a trained observer.

你必须有一定的观察力，就像一个训练有素的观察者。

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The greatest hits in some weird way marks the end of something.

最伟大的作品以某种奇怪的方式标志着某种东西的终结。

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Theory helps us to bear our ignorance of facts.

理论帮助我们忍受对事实的无知。

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