There's nothing I like less than bad arguments for a view that I hold dear.

  • -- Daniel Clement Dennett 丹尼尔·克莱门特·丹尼特

对于我所珍视的观点,没有什么比糟糕的论据更让我喜欢的了。

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I took two or three months and I came up with a reason that I thought was enough and I went with it: if there is a God he's definitely not benevolent. We should mean less to him than ants. And if there is a God or there are gods they would value, more than anything, free will.

我花了两三个月的时间,想出了一个我认为足够的理由:如果真有上帝,他肯定不仁慈。我们对他的意义应该比蚂蚁小。如果真有上帝,或者真有上帝,他们会把自由意志看得比任何东西都重要。

The fundamental fact about the Greek was that he had to use his mind. The ancient priests had said, "Thus far and no farther. We set the limits of thought." The Greek said, "All things are to be examined and called into question. There are no limits set on thought."

关于希腊人最基本的事实是他必须运用他的头脑。古代的祭司说过:“到此为止,不要再往前走了。”我们设定了思维的极限。”希腊人说、凡事都要审问审问。思想是没有限制的。”

The primordial argument against giving woman the vote is that that vote would not represent physical force.

反对赋予妇女投票权的最原始的理由是,这种投票权不代表体力。

It might be a bad thing, not to know what's going on in the world. I can't say I really approve of it.

不知道世界上正在发生什么可能是件坏事。我不能说我真的赞成它。

You want to do your job well so that people in the future say, 'OK, he's not bad, let's hire him.'

你想把工作做好,这样将来的人就会说,‘好吧,他不错,我们雇他吧。’

My views naturally have mellowed. Most of the critics have been more or less nice to me.

我的观点自然成熟了。大多数评论家对我或多或少都很好。

The less you think and the more you do, the better things tend to become.

你想的越少,做的越多,事情就会变得越好。

Behind every argument is someone's ignorance.

每一场争论的背后都是一些人的无知。