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.

  • -- Evan Esar 埃文·伊萨尔

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。

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The spirit of logical analysis should in practice blend with the practical pressure for the adoption of some form of international language, but it should not allow itself to be stampeded by it.

逻辑分析的精神在实践中应与采用某种形式的国际语言的实际压力相结合,但不应使自己受到这种压力的阻碍。

Usually if nobody hates a piece, nobody loves it, either; and a magazine which sets itself the goal of provoking thought is not doing its job if everybody agrees with what it does.

通常,如果没有人讨厌一块,也没有人喜欢它;如果每个人都同意一本杂志所做的事情,那么它设定的激发思考的目标并没有发挥作用。

That the variability of an organism to a certain extent is a constant and certain condition of life we admit, otherwise there would be no distinguishable individuals of a species.

生物体在一定程度上的变异性是一种恒定的生命状态,我们承认,否则就不会有一个物种中可区分的个体。

To call in the statistician after the experiment is done may be no more than asking him to perform a post-mortem examination: he may be able to say what the experiment died of.

在实验结束后打电话给统计学家,可能仅仅是让他做一个尸检:他或许能够说出实验的死因。

Basically, you're selling a world as an actor, right? I mean it's like any sales person: if you believe in your product, you know your product, you sell it a lot better.

基本上,你是在推销一个演员的世界,对吧?我的意思是,这就像任何一个销售人员:如果你相信你的产品,你知道你的产品,你会卖得更好。

I think people feel starved of nice, glamorous entertainment. They want to see costumes and gaiety and a singer; old-fashioned entertainment - it won't die easily.

我认为人们会感到对美好、迷人的娱乐活动的渴望。他们想看到服装、欢乐和歌手;老式的娱乐——它不会轻易消亡。

Think as you work, for in the final analysis, your worth to your company comes not only in solving problems, but also in anticipating them.

边工作边思考,因为归根结底,你对公司的价值不仅在于解决问题,还在于预见问题。

There hardly can be a greater difference between any two men, than there too often is, between the same man, a lover and a husband.

任何两个人之间的差别,都不可能比同一个人、情人和丈夫之间的差别更大。

Look, I'm a member of the House of Lords and I'm the first to admit that I don't understand how one gets new laws through.

听着,我是上议院的一员,我是第一个承认我不明白新法律是怎么通过的。

A man must be both stupid and uncharitable who believes there is no virtue or truth but on his own side.

如果一个人认为只有他自己才有美德或真理,那么他一定既愚蠢又无情。

The artist alone sees spirits. But after he has told of their appearing to him, everybody sees them.

只有艺术家才能看到灵魂。但当他告诉大家他们出现在他面前时,每个人都看到了他们。

Are you laboring under the impression that I read these memoranda of yours? I can't even lift them.

我读了你写的这些备忘录,你是否有这样的印象?我甚至都举不起来。

In the animal kingdom, the rule is, eat or be eaten; in the human kingdom, define or be defined.

在动物界,规则是吃或被吃;在人类王国中,定义或被定义。

The only true borders lie between day and night, between life and death, between hope and loss.

唯一真正的界限是在白天和黑夜之间,在生与死之间,在希望和失去之间。

Great allowances ought to be made for the petulance of persons laboring under ill-health.

对身体不好的人的任性应该给予很大的体谅。

In life there are some people that you have to lose in order to find yourself.

在生活中,你必须失去一些人,才能找到自己。

I was at home then in the world of figures, but not in that of values.

那时,我在数字的世界里如鱼得水,而不是在价值的世界里。

If it can't be expressed in figures, it is not science; it is opinion.

如果不能用数字来表达,那就不是科学;这是意见。

The Rose is without an explanation; She blooms, because She blooms.

玫瑰没有任何解释;她绽放,因为她绽放。

Do not fear going forward slowly; fear only to stand still.

不要害怕缓慢前进;害怕只是站着不动。

A man of genius has been seldom ruined but by himself.

天才很少被自己毁掉。

Everybody has a different definition of the good side.

每个人对好的一面都有不同的定义。

The two games we won, we played mistake-free football.

我们赢了两场比赛,我们踢了一场没有失误的足球。

Someone else is happy with less than what you have.

别人比你拥有的少而快乐。

If there is no God, who pops up the next Kleenex?

如果没有上帝,谁会弹出下一个纸巾?

A lie is just the truth waiting to be itself.

谎言就是等待成为自己的真相。

I was always handsome under all the fat.

尽管我很胖,但我总是很帅。

Great art picks up where nature ends.

伟大的艺术始于自然的终结。

I never sing in the shower either.

我也从来不在淋浴时唱歌。

Never believe the impossible.

永远不要相信不可能的事。

I can't stand unpacking.

我无法忍受打开行李。