If you learn one thing from having lived through decades of changing views, it is that all predictions are necessarily false.

  • -- M. H. Abrams 艾布拉姆斯

如果你从经历了几十年不断变化的观点中学到一件事,那就是所有的预测都必然是错误的。

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I was very careful to send Mr. Roosevelt every few days a statement of our casualties. I tried to keep before him all the time the casualty results because you get hardened to these things and you have to be very careful to keep them always in the forefront of your mind.

我非常小心地每隔几天就给罗斯福先生发一份我们的伤亡报告。我一直试图把伤亡的结果放在他面前,因为你对这些事情已经麻木了,你必须非常小心,把它们永远放在你脑海的最前面。

Because of recent improvements in the accuracy of theoretical predictions based on large scale ab initio quantum mechanical calculations, meaningful comparisons between theoretical and experimental findings have become possible.

由于最近基于大规模量子力学从头计算的理论预测的准确性有所提高,理论和实验结果之间的有意义的比较已经成为可能。

Key metaphors help determine what and how we perceive and how we think about our perceptions.

关键的隐喻有助于决定我们感知什么、如何感知以及如何思考我们的感知。

I am saying that all predictions concerning climate are highly uncertain.

我的意思是所有关于气候的预测都是高度不确定的。