The accidental causes of science are only accidents relatively to the intelligence of a man.

  • -- Chauncey Wright 他的学生赖特

科学的偶然原因只是相对于人的智力而言的偶然。

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Ignorance more frequently begets confidence than does knowledge: it is those who know little, and not those who know much, who so positively assert that this or that problem will never be solved by science.

无知比知识更容易带来自信:正是那些知道得很少的人,而不是那些知道得很多的人,如此积极地断言这个或那个问题永远不会被科学解决。

Be Prepared... the meaning of the motto is that a scout must prepare himself by previous thinking out and practicing how to act on any accident or emergency so that he is never taken by surprise.

做好准备…这句话的意思是:一个侦察员必须事先想清楚并练习如何在任何意外或紧急情况下采取行动,这样他就不会感到意外。

I never did anything worth doing by accident, nor did any of my inventions come by accident; they came by work.

我做任何值得做的事都不是偶然的,我的任何发明都不是偶然的;他们是通过工作来的。

If our brains were simple enough for us to understand them, we'd be so simple that we couldn't.

如果我们的大脑简单到足以让我们理解它们,我们就会简单到无法理解它们。