Sit down before fact as a little child, be prepared to give up every preconceived notion, follow humbly wherever or whatever abysses nature leads, or you will learn nothing.

  • -- Thomas Henry Huxley 赫胥黎

像个孩子一样,面对事实坐下来,准备好放弃一切先入之见,虚心追随大自然的深渊,否则你将一无所获。

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Take those chances and you can achieve greatness, whereas if you go conservative, you'll never know. I truly believe what doesn't kill you makes you stronger. Even if you fail, learning and moving on is sometimes the best thing.

抓住这些机会,你就能取得伟大的成就,然而如果你保守,你永远不会知道。我真的相信那些杀不死你的会让你更强大。即使你失败了,学习和前进有时是最好的事情。

The people cannot be all, and always well informed. The part which is wrong will be discontented in proportion to the importance of the facts they misconceive.

人民不可能面面俱到,而且总是消息灵通。错误的部分将会随着他们所误解的事实的重要性而感到不满。

If you would be a real seeker after truth, it is necessary that at least once in your life you doubt, as far as possible, all things.

如果你想成为一个真正的真理探索者,你一生中至少有一次必须尽可能地怀疑所有的事情。

There's no such thing as 'facts of life'. Only standing theories that haven't been disproved as of yet.

没有所谓的“生活事实”。只有站得住脚的理论还没有被推翻。

Definition of Statistics: The science of producing unreliable facts from reliable figures.

统计学的定义:从可靠的数字中得出不可靠的事实的科学。

You cannot open a book without learning something.

开卷有益。