Complex, statistically improbable things are by their nature more difficult to explain than simple, statistically probable things.

  • -- Richard Dawkins 理查德·道金斯

从本质上讲,复杂的、统计上不可能发生的事情比简单的、统计上可能发生的事情更难解释。

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I remember when I was a kid in school and teachers would explain things to me about what I read, and I'd think, Where did they get that? I didn't read that in there. Later you look at it and think, That's kind of an interesting idea.

我记得当我还是个孩子在学校的时候,老师会向我解释我读到的东西,我想,他们从哪里得到的?我没在里面读到。之后你看着它想,这是一个有趣的想法。

The trouble with having an open mind, of course, is that people will insist on coming along and trying to put things in it.

当然,思想开放的问题在于,人们会坚持走过去,并试图把东西放进去。

No one ever taught me and I can't teach anyone. If you can't explain it, how can you take credit for it?

没有人教过我,我也不能教任何人。如果你不能解释,你怎么能把它归功于你呢?

You never know how things are going to turn out, however much you plan. But you already know that.

无论你怎么计划,你永远不知道事情的结果会怎样。但你已经知道了。

It is nearly always the most improbable things that really come to pass.

真正发生的事情几乎总是最不可能发生的事情。