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The essence of science is that it is always willing to abandon a given idea for a better one; the essence of theology is that it holds its truths to be eternal and immutable.

  • -- H. L. Mencken 门肯

科学的本质是，它总是愿意为了一个更好的想法而放弃一个既定的想法;神学的本质在于它认为自己的真理是永恒不变的。

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The sigh of History rises over ruins, not over landscapes, and in the Antilles there are few ruins to sigh over, apart from the ruins of sugar estates and abandoned forts.

历史的叹息从废墟中升起，而不是从风景中升起。在安的列斯群岛，除了糖园和废弃堡垒的废墟外，几乎没有什么废墟值得叹息。

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To some physicists chaos is a science of process rather than state, of becoming rather than being.

对一些物理学家来说，混沌是一门关于过程而不是状态的科学，是关于成为而不是存在的科学。

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Reality provides us with facts so romantic that imagination itself could add nothing to them.

现实为我们提供了如此浪漫的事实，想象本身并不能给它们添加任何东西。

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Never abandon a theory that explains something until you have a theory that explains more.

永远不要放弃一个解释某件事的理论，除非你有一个解释得更多的理论。

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