The man of science, like the man of letters, is too apt to view mankind only in the abstract, selecting in his consideration only a single side of our complex and many-sided being.

  • -- Sir James George Frazer 弗雷泽爵士

科学家和文学家一样,也很容易只从抽象的角度来看待人类,只从我们这个复杂的、多方面的存在的一面来考虑问题。

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The real purpose of the scientific method is to make sure nature hasn’t misled you into thinking you know something you actually don’t know.

科学方法的真正目的是确保自然没有误导你,让你以为你知道一些你实际上不知道的东西。

Letters are like wine; if they are sound they ripen with keeping. A man should lay down letters as he does a cellar of wine.

字母像酒;声音若坚固,存而不坏。一个人放下书信就像他放下酒窖一样。

This is a free country. Folks have a right to send me letters, and I have a right not to read them.

这是一个自由的国家。人们有权给我写信,我也有权不读。

Science makes no pretension to eternal truth or absolute truth.

科学不自命永恒的真理或绝对的真理。