If your faith is opposed to experience, to human learning and investigation, it is not worth the breath used in giving it expression.

  • -- Edgar Watson Howe 埃德加·沃森·豪

如果你的信仰与经验相悖,与人类的学习和探索相悖,那么它就不值得你用呼吸来表达它。

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In justice to human society it may perhaps be said of almost all the polities and civil institutions in the world, however imperfect, that they have been founded in and carried on with very considerable wisdom.

为了公正地对待人类社会,也许可以这样说,世界上几乎所有的政治和公民机构,无论多么不完善,都是以相当大的智慧建立和发展起来的。

I believe in everything until it's disproved. So I believe in fairies, the myths, dragons. It all exists, even if it's in your mind. Who's to say that dreams and nightmares aren't as real as the here and now?

我相信一切,直到它被证明是错的。所以我相信仙女,神话,龙。它都存在,即使它在你的脑海中。谁能说梦和噩梦不像此时此地那么真实呢?

The cloud that descended on Black Rock on Monday was not for the past but the future. How much will this debacle chill the pursuit of other risky investigations?

周一降临在黑岩上的云不是过去的,而是未来的。这场溃败将在多大程度上阻碍其它高风险调查的进行?

We passed important laws to give the authorities responsible for investigation wide powers to defend us.

我们通过了重要的法律,赋予负责调查的当局广泛的权力来保护我们。

All dogs know what most humans don't that the principle business of life is to enjoy it.

所有的狗都知道大多数人不知道的事情,那就是享受生活。

All the faith and good will in the world is wasted without direction.

没有方向,世界上所有的信念和善意都将付之东流。