The scientific mind does not so much provide the right answers as ask the right questions.

  • -- Claude Levi-Strauss 斯特劳斯

科学的头脑与其说能提供正确的答案,不如说能提出正确的问题。

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If most people are not willing to see the difficulty, this is mainly because, consciously or unconsciously, they assume that it will be they who will settle these questions for the others, and because they are convinced of their own capacity to do this.

如果大多数人不愿意看到困难,这主要是因为,有意识或无意识地,他们认为将由他们来为其他人解决这些问题,因为他们相信自己有能力做到这一点。

People are generally better persuaded by the reasons which they have themselves discovered than by those which have come in to the mind of others.

人们通常更容易被自己发现的原因所说服,而不是被别人想到的原因所说服。

The trouble with having an open mind, of course, is that people will insist on coming along and trying to put things in it.

当然,思想开放的问题在于,人们会坚持走过去,并试图把东西放进去。

One who asks a question is a fool for five minutes; one who does not ask a question remains a fool forever.

问问题的人只会傻上五分钟;一个不问问题的人永远是个傻瓜。