The grand aim of all science is to cover the greatest number of empirical facts by logical deduction from the smallest number of hypotheses or axioms.

  • -- Albert Einstein 爱因斯坦

所有科学的伟大目标都是通过从最少的假设或公理中进行逻辑推理来涵盖最多的经验事实。

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I wish I could go to the school where my close friends go, but I obviously can't. The good thing is, they're really good about inviting me to all the football games and all that stuff. So I end up having an adopted team spirit for a school I don't go to.

我希望我能去我的好朋友去的学校,但我显然不能。好在,他们真的很乐意邀请我去看所有的足球比赛之类的。所以我最终被一所我没有上过的学校所吸收的团队精神。

I spend as much time with my kids as any mom who stays home. I only work during the hours they're at school, but there is always the sense of trying to catch up with all their stuff and not only organize my work life but also their school lives.

我花在孩子身上的时间和所有呆在家里的妈妈一样多。我只在他们上学的时间里工作,但总有一种努力赶上他们所有东西的感觉,不仅要安排我的工作生活,还要安排他们的学校生活。

A logical analysis of reflexive usages in French shows, however, that this simplicity is an illusion and that, so far from helping the foreigner, it is more calculated to bother him.

然而,对法语中反身用法的逻辑分析表明,这种简单是一种幻觉,它非但没有帮助外国人,反而更有意地让外国人感到烦恼。

Yet Aristotle's excellence of substance, so far from being associated with the grand style, is associated with something that at times comes perilously near jargon.

然而,亚里士多德对实质的卓越性,远没有与宏大的风格联系在一起,而是与一些有时近乎术语的东西联系在一起。

We often choose a friend as we do a mistress - for no particular excellence in themselves, but merely from some circumstance that flatters our self-love.

我们选择朋友就像选择情人一样——并不是因为他们本身有什么特别的优点,而仅仅是出于某种满足我们自爱的环境。

Simplicity should not be identified with bareness.

简单不应该与赤裸等同。