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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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。

I would be absolutely astounded if population growth and industrialisation and all the stuff we are pumping into the atmosphere hadn't changed the climatic balance. Of course it has. There is no valid argument for denial.

如果人口增长、工业化以及我们排放到大气中的所有物质没有改变气候平衡,我绝对会大吃一惊。当然有。否认是没有正当理由的。

You know when you're young and you see a play in high school, and the guys all have gray in their hair and they're trying to be old men and they have no idea what that's like? It's just that stupid the other way around.

你知道吗,当你年轻的时候,你在高中看一场戏剧,所有的男人都是白发苍苍,他们想成为老年人,却不知道那是什么样子?只是反过来太蠢了。

I encourage students to pursue an idea far enough so they can see what the cliches and stereotypes are. Only then do they begin to hit pay dirt.

我鼓励学生们追求一个足够远的想法,这样他们就能看到陈词滥调和刻板印象是什么。只有到那时,他们才开始发迹。

How much should the state be involved in regulating the growth in communities when you already have a county doing it, or a city doing it?

当一个县或一个城市已经在做这件事时,国家应该在多大程度上参与到社区增长的调控中去?

I treat any scene the same - dialogue, action - you're still creating something in character. It's all acting, fighting.

我对待任何场景都是一样的——对话,动作——你仍然在创造一些角色。都是演戏,打架。

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。

Writing a teen character is something I wanted to try again for a long time!

很长一段时间以来,我都想再次尝试写一个青少年角色!