New opinions often appear first as jokes and fancies, then as blasphemies and treason, then as questions open to discussion, and finally as established truths.

  • -- George Bernard Shaw 萧伯纳

新观点常常首先以玩笑和幻想的形式出现,然后以亵渎和背叛的形式出现,最后以可供讨论的问题的形式出现,最后以公认的真理的形式出现。

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Here's the teaching point, if you're teaching kids about intelligence and policy: Intelligence does not absolve policymakers of responsibility to ask tough questions, and it doesn't absolve them of having curiosity about the consequences of their actions.

如果你教孩子们有关智力和政策的知识,这里有一个教学要点:智力不能免除决策者提出尖锐问题的责任,也不能免除他们对自己行为后果的好奇心。

If you want to assert a truth, first make sure it's not just an opinion that you desperately want to be true.

如果你想要坚持一个事实,首先要确保它不仅仅是一个你迫切想要成为事实的观点。

I'm happy to have my own opinion and air it when I think it's necessary.

我很高兴有自己的观点,并在我认为有必要的时候发表出来。

A prudent question is one half of wisdom.

谨慎的问题是智慧的一半。