Truth lives, in fact, for the most part on a credit system. Our thoughts and beliefs pass, so long as nothing challenges them, just as bank-notes pass so long as nobody refuses them.

  • -- William James 威廉·詹姆斯

事实上,真理在很大程度上依赖于信用体系。只要没有任何挑战,我们的思想和信念就会过去;只要没有人拒绝,钞票就会过去。

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Moreover the incorporation requires the same components needed for protein synthesis, and is inhibited by the same inhibitors. Thus the system is most unlikely to be a complete artefact and is very probably closely related to genuine protein synthesis.

此外,这种结合需要蛋白质合成所需的相同成分,并受到相同抑制剂的抑制。因此,该系统不太可能是一个完整的人工制品,很可能与真正的蛋白质合成密切相关。

The verbal interpretation, on the other hand, i.e. the metaphysics of quantum physics, is on far less solid ground. In fact, in more than forty years physicists have not been able to provide a clear metaphysical model.

另一方面,口头解释,即量子物理学的形而上学,则没有那么坚实的基础。事实上,四十多年来,物理学家们一直未能提供一个清晰的形而上学模型。

The political system is not for the people. The people are secondary to the economy. It's about what generates money, not about what benefits the people.

政治制度不适合人民。人民对经济来说是次要的。这是为了赚钱,而不是为了造福人民。

A theory is no more like a fact than a photograph is like a person.

理论不像事实,正如照片不像人一样。