Our empirical criterion for a series of theories is that it should produce new facts. The idea of growth and the concept of empirical character are soldered into one.

  • -- Imre Lakatos 拉卡托斯

我们对一系列理论的经验标准是,它应该产生新的事实。成长的概念和经验的特性的概念是结合在一起的。

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It's never been important to be a huge star or to have some breakout role. If you're the lead, you get a lot more screen time and you get a lot more chances to develop that character more thoroughly than you would if you do it in a little supporting part.

成为一名巨星或有一些突破性的角色从来都不重要。如果你是主角,你会有更多的屏幕时间,你会有更多的机会更全面地塑造这个角色,而不是在配角的角色上。

Darwin based his theory on generalizations that were strictly empirical. You can go out and see that organisms do vary, that variations are inherited, and that every organism is capable of increasing its numbers in sufficiently favorable circumstances.

达尔文的理论是建立在严格经验主义的概括基础上的。你可以走出去,看到生物体确实在变化,变异是遗传的,每一个生物体都有能力在足够有利的环境下增加自己的数量。

Once I got a record contract, and I took my songs which weren't quite finished, or maybe they were a good idea, maybe they weren't. I took them into the studio and developed them. They came to life and they evolved... and they're great.

有一次我签了唱片合同,我把那些还没完成的歌拿了过来,也许它们是个好主意,也许不是。我把它们带进工作室,冲洗出来。他们活了过来,他们进化了……他们好了。

I forgive myself for not being perfect. I recognize we're all not perfect. I am open to forgiving others. I value persistence insights and growth far more than perfection.

我原谅自己不够完美。我知道我们都不是完美的。我愿意原谅别人。比起完美,我更看重持久的洞察力和成长。

In the original script, my character was a basketball player rather than a boxer. I didn't think I could pull that off. I'm a little short to be a basketball player!

在最初的剧本中,我的角色是一个篮球运动员而不是拳击手。我想我做不到。我太矮了,不能成为一名篮球运动员。

Monetary policy cannot do much about long-run growth, all we can try to do is to try to smooth out periods where the economy is depressed because of lack of demand.

货币政策对长期增长起不了多大作用,我们所能做的就是努力消除经济因需求不足而低迷的时期。

We would be in a nasty position indeed if empirical science were the only kind of science possible.

如果经验科学是唯一可能的科学,我们将会处于一个非常糟糕的境地。

What we have to do is reinvent the idea of Europe.

我们要做的是重塑欧洲的理念。