For if any man who never saw fire proved by satisfactory arguments that fire burns. His hearer's mind would never be satisfied, nor would he avoid the fire until he put his hand in it that he might learn by experiment what argument taught.

  • -- Roger Bacon 培根

因为,如果一个从未见过火的人用令人满意的论据证明火是燃烧的。他的听众永远不会满足,除非他把手伸进火里,通过实验来学习论证所教的东西,否则他也不会避开火。

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You have to open your mind. I like the ability to express myself in a deep way. It's the closest music to our humanity - it's like a folk music that rises up out of a culture.

你必须敞开心扉。我喜欢用一种深刻的方式表达自己的能力。它是最接近人类的音乐——它就像一种从文化中崛起的民间音乐。

It is funny the things that run through your mind when you're sitting in your underpants in front of a pair of strangers.

有趣的是,当你穿着内裤坐在一对陌生人面前的时候,你的脑海中会浮现出一些事情。

The long term versus the short term argument is one used by losers.

长期与短期之争是失败者的观点。

An error doesn't become a mistake until you refuse to correct it.

一个错误不会变成一个错误,直到你拒绝改正它。

A single fact is worth a shipload of argument.

一个事实值得一船的争论。