Blind faith, no matter how passionately expressed, will not suffice. Science for its part will test relentlessly every assumption about the human condition.

  • -- E. O. Wilson 威尔森

盲目的信仰,不管表达得多么热烈,都是不够的。科学本身将无情地检验关于人类状况的每一个假设。

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The main consideration with those who, possessing some capital, propose to emigrate as the means of improving their condition, is, the society likely to be found in the land fixed on for their future residence.

对于那些拥有一些资本,打算移民以改善其生活条件的人来说,主要考虑的是在他们未来居住的土地上可能找到社会。

Science might almost be redefined as the process of substituting unimportant questions which can be answered for important questions which cannot.

科学几乎可以被重新定义为这样一个过程:用可以回答的不重要的问题代替不能回答的重要问题。

Of all human inventions the organization, a machine constructed of people performing interdependent functions, is the most powerful.

在人类所有的发明中,组织是由履行相互依赖功能的人组成的机器,是最强大的。

To read without reflecting is like eating without digesting.

读书不思考,犹如吃饭不消化。

Winning is the science of being totally prepared.

胜利是一门准备充分的科学。

Wealth and want equally harden the human heart.

财富和匮乏同样使人的心变硬。