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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Too often, our minds are locked on one track. We are looking for red-so we overlook blue. Many Nobel prizes have been washed down the drain because someone did not expect the  unexpected.

太多时候,我们的思想被锁定在一个轨道上。我们在找红色,所以忽略了蓝色。许多诺贝尔奖都被白白浪费了,因为有人没有预料到会发生意想不到的事。

Character cannot be developed in ease and quiet. Only through experience of trial and suffering can the soul be strengthened, vision cleared, ambition inspired, and success achieved.

性格不能在安逸和平静中培养。只有经历了试炼和痛苦,灵魂才能得到强化,视野才会清晰,雄心才会被激发,成功才会实现。

I have no regrets in my life. I think that everything happens to you for a reason. The hard times that you go through build character, making you a much stronger person.

我的生活中没有遗憾。我认为发生在你身上的每件事都是有原因的。你所经历的艰难时期会塑造你的性格,使你成为一个更坚强的人。

My idea of God is not a divine idea. It has to be shattered time after time. He shatters it Himself.

我对上帝的看法并不神圣。它必须一次又一次地被粉碎。他自己把它打碎了。

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。

An absolutely new idea is one of the rarest things known to man.

一个全新的想法是人类所知的最稀有的东西之一。

Every day, in every way, I am getting better and better.

每天每个方面我的生活都正在变得越来越好。