Theory not only formulates what we know but also tells us what we want to know, that is, the questions to which an answer is needed.

  • -- Talcott Parsons 帕森斯

理论不仅规定了我们所知道的东西,而且告诉我们我们想知道什么,也就是需要答案的问题。

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The theory that can absorb the greatest number of facts, and persist in doing so, generation after generation, through all changes of opinion and detail, is the one that must rule all observation.

能够吸收最多的事实,并坚持这样做,一代又一代,通过所有的意见和细节的变化,是一个理论,必须统治所有的观察。

There could be no fairer destiny for any physical theory than that it should point the way to a more comprehensive theory in which it lives on as a limiting case.

对任何物理理论来说,没有比这更公平的命运了:它应该为一种更全面的理论指明道路,在这种理论中,它作为一种极限情况而存在。