A COLLECTION OF GOOD WORDS
真理
Truth
The pure and simple truth is rarely pure and never simple.
纯粹而简单的真理很少纯粹而从不简单。
Convictions are more dangerous enemies of truth than lies.
信念是真理比谎言更危险的敌人。
When your conscience says law is immoral, don't follow it.
当你的良心说法律是不道德的,不要遵循它。
Truth is stranger than fiction; fiction has to make sense.
真理比小说更离奇;小说必须有意义。
Oh, the difference between nearly right and exactly right.
哦,几乎正确和完全正确之间的区别。
There is no doubt fiction makes a better job of the truth.
毫无疑问,小说能更好地诠释真相。
Prediction is very difficult, especially about the future.
预测是非常困难的,尤其是对未来的预测。
The most dangerous untruths are truths slightly distorted.
最危险的谎言是有些歪曲的事实。
The best lies to tell are the ones people want to believe.
最好的谎言是人们愿意相信的。
Sentimentality is intolerable because it is false feeling.
多愁善感是不能容忍的,因为它是虚假的感觉。
I would never die for my beliefs because I might be wrong.
我永远不会为我的信仰而死,因为我可能是错的。
A poem, whose subject is not truth, but things like truth.
诗的主题不是真理,而是类似真理的东西。
KEEP EXPLORING
沿着这个主题,再读几句。
A theory has only the alternative of being right or wrong. A model has a third possibility: it may be right, but irrelevant.
理论只有对错之分。模型还有第三种可能性:它可能是正确的,但无关紧要。
To retain respect for sausages and laws, one must not watch them in the making.
要保持对香肠和法律的尊重,就不能眼睁睁地看着它们的制作过程。
Liberty is the right of every man to be honest, to think and to speak without hypocrisy.
自由是每个人诚实、不虚伪地思考和说话的权利。
The discovery of what is true and the practice of that which is good are the two most important aims of philosophy.
发现真理和实践善是哲学最重要的两个目标。
The love of truth lies at the root of much humor.
对真理的热爱是许多幽默的根源。
When the scientific method came into being, it gave us a new window on the truth; namely, a method by laboratory-controlled experiments to winnow true hypotheses from false ones.
当科学方法出现的时候,它给我们提供了一个了解真相的新窗口;也就是说,一种通过实验室控制实验从错误的假设中筛选出正确假设的方法。