A COLLECTION OF GOOD WORDS
真理
Truth
It is difficult to separate, at times, the myth from the truth.
有时很难把神话与事实分开。
Men are apt to prefer a prosperous error to an afflicted truth.
人们往往喜欢顺遂的错误,而不喜欢痛苦的真理。
Science makes no pretension to eternal truth or absolute truth.
科学不自命永恒的真理或绝对的真理。
As reason is a rebel to faith, so passion is a rebel to reason.
正如理性是对信仰的反叛,激情也是对理性的反叛。
The true sign of intelligence is not knowledge but imagination.
智慧的真正标志不是知识,而是想象力。
Silence is a statement that is open to gross misinterpretation.
沉默是一种容易引起严重误解的说法。
A lie is just a great story that someone ruined with the truth.
谎言就是一个被真相毁掉的伟大故事。
The meaning of a proposition is the method of its verification.
命题的意义是其验证的方法。
Misquotations are the only quotations that are never misquoted.
误引是唯一不会被误引的引语。
Life is a screen which separates us from the mystery of things.
生活是一块屏风,把我们与神秘的事物隔开。
The people will believe what the media tells them they believe.
人们会相信媒体告诉他们他们相信的东西。
I encounter one example after another of how relative truth is.
我遇到一个又一个关于相对真理的例子。
KEEP EXPLORING
沿着这个主题,再读几句。
That's the way things come clear. All of a sudden. And then you realize how obvious they've been all along.
事情就是这样弄清楚的。突然间。然后你就会意识到他们一直以来都很明显。
Definition of a Statistician: A man who believes figures don't lie, but admits than under analysis some of them won't stand up either.
统计学家的定义:一个人相信数据不会说谎,但他承认,在分析中,有些数据也站不住脚。
Learn to see things as they really are, not as we imagine they are.
学会看清事情的真相,而不是我们想象的那样。
The first and the last thing demanded of genius is the love of truth.
对天才的第一和最后要求是热爱真理。
Greatness and goodness are not means, but ends.
伟大和善良不是手段,而是目的。
Language is like songs, like food, like dance-it is the expression of what we think.
语言就像歌曲,食物,舞蹈——它是我们思想的表达。