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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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。

Historic changes and challenges. Breakthroughs in human knowledge and opportunity. And yet, for vast numbers across the globe, the daily realities have not altered.

历史性变化和挑战。人类知识和机遇的突破。然而,对全球各地的大多数人来说,日常现实并没有改变。

That is the definition of faith -- acceptance of that which we imagine to be true, that which we cannot prove.

这就是信仰的定义——接受我们认为是真实的东西,接受我们无法证明的东西。

Exercise your faith, or you won't have the muscles when it's time to fight.

锻炼你的信心,否则你在战斗的时候就没有力气了。

Not all human souls but only the pious ones are divine.

不是所有的人的灵魂都是神圣的,只有虔诚的人才是神圣的。