This idea was also brought out very clearly by Wallace, who emphasized that apparently reasonable activities of man might very well have developed without an actual application of reasoning.

  • -- Franz Boas 弗朗茨·博阿斯

华莱士也非常清楚地提出了这一观点,他强调,人类明显合理的活动很可能在没有实际应用推理的情况下得到发展。

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Yeah, but you need an experienced radio veteran who is a liberal advocate. And there just hadn't been any radio that did that. And so they weren't trained - they had developed all these bad habits of being objective and balanced and stuff like that.

是的,但是你需要一个经验丰富的电台老手,一个自由主义的拥护者。当时没有任何一台收音机能做到这一点。所以他们没有受过训练——他们养成了所有这些客观、平衡的坏习惯,诸如此类。

To begin with, you must realize that any idea accepted by the brain is automatically transformed into an action of some sort. It may take seconds or minutes or longer - but ideas always produce a reaction of some sort.

首先,你必须意识到大脑接受的任何想法都会自动转化为某种行为。这可能需要几秒钟、几分钟或更长的时间,但想法总会产生某种反应。

Why should the composer be more guilty than the poet who warms to fantasy by a strange flame, making an idea that inspires him the subject of his own very different treatment?

为什么作曲家要比诗人更有罪恶感呢?诗人被一种奇怪的火焰温暖着,产生了一种想法,激发了他的灵感,使他以一种截然不同的方式对待自己的主题。

The techniques I developed for studying turbulence, like weather, also apply to the stock market.

我为研究动荡而开发的技术,比如天气,也适用于股市。

If you give me enough time, enough leash, I can become pretty reasonable.

如果你给我足够的时间,足够的约束,我可以变得相当合理。

The only remedy against hunger is reasonable birth control.

对付饥饿的唯一办法是合理的节育。