Argument is to me the air I breathe. Given any proposition, I cannot help believing the other side and defending it.

  • -- Gertrude Stein 格特鲁德·斯坦

对我来说,争论就是我呼吸的空气。无论提出什么主张,我都不能不相信对方,不能不为它辩护。

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In science it often happens that scientists say, 'You know that's a really good argument; my position is mistaken', and then they would actually change their minds and you never hear that old view from them again. They really do it. It doesn't happen.

在科学领域,科学家们经常会说,‘你知道这是一个很好的论点;我的立场是错误的’,然后他们就会改变主意,你就再也听不到他们的旧观点了。他们真的做到了。它不会发生。

True science is never speculative; it employs hypotheses as suggesting points for inquiry, but it never adopts the hypotheses as though they were demonstrated propositions.

真正的科学从不投机;它使用假设作为研究的建议点,但它从不采用假设,好像它们是被证明的命题。

Hurried and worried until we're buried, and there's no curtain call, Lifes a very funny proposition after all.

匆忙和担心,直到我们被埋葬,没有谢幕,生活毕竟是一个非常有趣的命题。

In argument similes are like songs in love; they describe much, but prove nothing.

在争论中,明喻就像情歌;他们描述得很多,但证明不了什么。