There is no scientific discoverer, no poet, no painter, no musician, who will not tell you that he found ready made his discovery or poem or picture - that it came to him from outside, and that he did not consciously create it from within.

  • -- William Kingdon Clifford 威廉·金顿·克利福德

没有一个科学的发现者,没有一个诗人,没有一个画家,没有一个音乐家不告诉你,他发现了现成的发现,无论是诗歌还是绘画,都是来自外部的,而不是他有意识地从内部创造出来的。

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The final outcome cannot be known, either to the originator of a new theory, or to his colleagues and critics, who are bent on falsifying it. Thus, the scientific innovator may feel all the more lonely and uncertain.

最终的结果是无法知道的,无论是对一个新理论的创始人,还是对他的同事和批评者,谁决心要证伪它。因此,科学创新者可能会感到更加孤独和不确定。

The restriction of studies of human intellect and character to studies of conscious states was not without influence on a scientific studies of animal psychology.

把对人类智力和性格的研究局限于对意识状态的研究,对动物心理学的科学研究不无影响。

A mom has to be ready for anything.

母亲必须为任何事情做好准备。

I'm ready to win.

我准备好赢了。