Physics investigates the essential nature of the world, and biology describes a local bump. Psychology, human psychology, describes a bump on the bump.

  • -- Willard Van Orman Quine 威拉德·冯·奥曼·蒯因

物理学研究世界的本质,而生物学则描述局部的撞击。心理学,人类心理学,描述撞击上的撞击。

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The psychology of a language which, in one way or another, is imposed upon one because of factors beyond one's control, is very different from the psychology of a language which one accepts of one's free will.

一种语言的心理,以这样或那样的方式,由于无法控制的因素而强加于人,与一种语言的心理是非常不同的,这种语言的心理是一个人接受自己的自由意志。

Every time you perform a magic trick, you're engaging in experimental psychology. If the audience asks, 'How the hell did he do that?' then the experiment was successful.

每次你表演魔术,你都是在从事实验心理学。如果观众问,‘他到底是怎么做到的?然后实验成功了。

As an undergraduate, I did maths and physics. That doesn't make me a scientist. So I try to read and understand and talk to scientists.

本科时,我学数学和物理。这并不能说明我是科学家。所以我试着阅读、理解和与科学家交谈。

Dark energy is perhaps the biggest mystery in physics.

暗能量可能是物理学中最大的谜团。