Science is the knowledge of consequences, and dependence of one fact upon another.

  • -- Thomas Hobbes 托马斯·霍布斯

科学是关于结果的知识,是一个事实对另一个事实的依赖。

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To that class we may leave it to refine the vernacular dialects of the country, to enrich those dialects with terms of science borrowed from the Western nomenclature, and to render them by degrees fit vehicles for conveying knowledge to the great mass of the population.

对于这一类人,我们可以把它留给改进本国的方言,用借用西方命名法的科学术语来丰富这些方言,并使它们逐渐成为向广大人民传播知识的工具。

A colour is a physical object as soon as we consider its dependence, for instance, upon its luminous source, upon other colours, upon temperatures, upon spaces, and so forth.

颜色是一种物理对象,只要我们考虑到它的依赖关系,例如,它依赖于它的光源,依赖于其他颜色,依赖于温度,依赖于空间等等。

I was sent to a school because my father was already aware that his days were numbered, and he was anxious for me to acquire a good education and follow in his footsteps.

我被送到一所学校,因为我的父亲已经意识到他的日子不多了,他急于让我接受良好的教育,追随他的脚步。

Dependence begets subservience and venality, suffocates the germ of virtue, and prepares fit tools for the designs of ambition.

依赖带来顺从和腐败,扼杀美德的萌芽,为野心的设计准备合适的工具。

Wisdom consists of the anticipation of consequences.

智慧由对结果的预期构成。

One often gets what one disdains

一个人常常得到他所蔑视的东西