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。

相关名言

In the discovery of secret things and in the investigation of hidden causes, stronger reasons are obtained from sure experiments and demonstrated arguments than from probable conjectures and the opinions of philosophical speculators of the common sort.

在发现秘密的事物和研究隐藏的原因时,从可靠的实验和论证中得到的理由比从一般哲学投机者的推测和意见中得到的理由更充分。

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。

The universe is not required to be in perfect harmony with human ambition.

宇宙并不需要与人类的野心保持完美的和谐。

It's because we have little faith that we look within instead of without.

这是因为我们对自己的内在而非外在缺乏信心。

Faith is the poetry of our dreams; action is the builder of our reality.

信仰是我们梦想的诗歌;行动是我们现实的建造者。

A human being is a single being. Unique and unrepeatable.

一个人是一个单独的存在。独特的,不可重复的。