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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I will not attack your doctrines nor your creeds if they accord liberty to me. If they hold thought to be dangerous - if they aver that doubt is a crime, then I attack them one and all, because they enslave the minds of men.

如果你们的教义和信条给了我自由,我就不会攻击它们。如果他们认为危险——如果他们断言怀疑是一种犯罪,那么我就会对他们进行全面的攻击,因为他们奴役了人类的思想。

The investigations which have seemingly been the most purely abstract have often formed the foundation of the most important changes or improvements in the conditions of human life.

似乎是最纯粹抽象的调查往往构成了人类生活条件中最重要的变化或改善的基础。

I have this extraordinary curiosity about all subjects of the natural and human world and the interaction between the physical sciences and the social sciences.

我对自然和人类世界的所有学科,以及自然科学和社会科学之间的相互作用,都有着异乎寻常的好奇心。

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。

Maybe I am not very human - what I wanted to do was to paint sunlight on the side of a house.

也许我不是一个很有人性的人——我想做的是在房子的一侧画上阳光。

Worry is spiritual short sight. Its cure is intelligent faith.

忧虑是精神上的短视。它的治疗方法是明智的信仰。