For me, this world of questions and the provisional, this chase after an answer that was always put off to the next day, all that was euphoric. I lived in the future.

  • -- Francois Jacob 弗朗索瓦·雅各布

对我来说,这个世界上的问题和暂时的,这种追逐答案,总是被推迟到第二天,所有这一切都是令人愉快的。我生活在未来。

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I found I wasn't asking good enough questions because I assumed I knew something. I would box them into a corner with a badly formed question, and they didn't know how to get out of it. Now, I let them take me through it step by step, and I listen.

我发现我问的问题不够好,因为我以为我知道一些事情。我会用一个形式糟糕的问题把他们逼到墙角,而他们不知道如何摆脱。现在,我让他们一步一步地把我带过去,我听着。

The struggle for existence holds as much in the intellectual as in the physical world. A theory is a species of thinking, and its right to exist is coextensive with its power of resisting extinction by its rivals.

生存的斗争不仅存在于物质世界,也存在于精神世界。理论是一种思维,它的生存权与它抵抗竞争对手灭绝的能力是相辅相成的。

The fact that we don't keep repeating tests in the same arena is not because the probability of the hypothesis showing its falsity in other arenas goes up after it has passed tests in one arena.

我们不在同一个领域重复测试的事实,并不是因为假设在一个领域通过测试后,在其他领域显示其虚假的可能性会上升。

A sponge has that much absorbent capability and after a while you can pour water over it and nothing stays.

海绵有那么强的吸水性,一段时间后,你可以把水倒在上面,什么也留不住。

My friends are all really nice about my fame, they're just curious really, they ask lots of questions.

我的朋友们对我的名声都很好,他们只是很好奇,他们会问很多问题。

What men value in this world is not rights but privileges.

在这个世界上,人们看重的不是权利,而是特权。