It is funny that men who are supposed to be scientific cannot get themselves to realise the basic principle of physics, that action and reaction are equal and opposite, that when you persecute people you always rouse them to be strong and stronger.

  • -- Gertrude Stein 格特鲁德·斯坦

有趣的是,那些被认为是科学家的人却不能让自己意识到物理学的基本原理,即行为和反应是平等的、相反的,当你迫害别人时,你总是激励他们变得越来越强大。

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We may take it to be the accepted idea that the Mosaic books were not handed down to us for our instruction in scientific knowledge, and that it is our duty to ground our scientific beliefs upon observation and inference, unmixed with considerations of a different order.

我们可以接受这样一种观点,即摩西书并不是为了传授我们科学知识而流传下来的,我们有责任把我们的科学信念建立在观察和推理的基础上,不掺杂其他顺序的考虑。

On the ordinary view of each species having been independently created, we gain no scientific explanation.

按照每个物种都是独立创造的一般观点,我们没有得到任何科学的解释。

Men who pass most comfortably through this world are those who possess good digestions and hard hearts.

在这个世界上过得最舒服的人,是那些有良好的消化能力和冷酷心肠的人。

Men willingly believe what they wish.

人们愿意相信他们所希望的。