True science is never speculative; it employs hypotheses as suggesting points for inquiry, but it never adopts the hypotheses as though they were demonstrated propositions.

  • -- Cleveland Abbe Sr. 克利夫兰修道院院长

真正的科学从不投机;它使用假设作为研究的建议点,但它从不采用假设,好像它们是被证明的命题。

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In trials of fact, by oral testimony, the proper inquiry is not whether is it possible that the testimony may be false, but whether there is sufficient probability that it is true.

在事实的审判中,通过口头证词,正确的调查不是看证词是否可能是假的,而是看是否有足够的可能性证明它是真的。

Love is free; to promise for ever to love the same woman is not less absurd than to promise to believe the same creed; such a vow in both cases excludes us from all inquiry.

爱是免费的;承诺永远爱同一个女人并不比承诺相信同一个信条更荒谬;在这两种情况下,这样的誓言把我们排除在一切调查之外。

I am suggesting that we recognize that in network and interface research there is something as profound (and potential wild) as Artificial Intelligence.

我的意思是,我们应该认识到,在网络和接口研究中,存在着与人工智能一样深刻(而且潜在的野性)的东西。

That the sun will not rise tomorrow is no less intelligible a proposition, and implies no more contradiction, than the affirmation, that it will rise.

明天太阳不会升起,这是一个明白易懂的命题,它所包含的矛盾,并不比肯定太阳会升起来得多。

In suggesting gifts: Money is appropriate, and one size fits all.

送礼建议:钱是合适的,适合所有人。