A COLLECTION OF GOOD WORDS
命题
Propositions
Hurried and worried until we're buried, and there's no curtain call, Lifes a very funny proposition after all.
匆忙和担心，直到我们被埋葬，没有谢幕，生活毕竟是一个非常有趣的命题。
Argument is to me the air I breathe. Given any proposition, I cannot help believing the other side and defending it.
对我来说，争论就是我呼吸的空气。无论提出什么主张，我都不能不相信对方，不能不为它辩护。
That the sun will not rise tomorrow is no less intelligible a proposition, and implies no more contradiction, than the affirmation, that it will rise.
明天太阳不会升起，这是一个明白易懂的命题，它所包含的矛盾，并不比肯定太阳会升起来得多。
True science is never speculative; it employs hypotheses as suggesting points for inquiry, but it never adopts the hypotheses as though they were demonstrated propositions.
真正的科学从不投机;它使用假设作为研究的建议点，但它从不采用假设，好像它们是被证明的命题。
Let that which stood in front go behind, let that which was behind advance to the front, let bigots, fools, unclean persons, offer new propositions, let the old propositions be postponed.
从前站在前的，当退到后;从前站在后的，当进到前。顽固的人，愚顽的人，污秽的人，当推陈出新。