False facts are highly injurious to the progress of science, for they often endure long; but false views, if supported by some evidence, do little harm, for every one takes a salutary pleasure in proving their falseness.

  • -- Charles Darwin 查尔斯·达尔文

错误的事实对科学的进步是非常有害的,因为它们往往持续很长时间;但是,错误的观点,如果有一些证据支持,几乎没有什么害处,因为每个人都乐于证明自己的错误。

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The un-conscious distortion of the facts is almost harmless compared to the unconscious neglect of an animal's mental life until it verges on the unusual and marvelous.

与无意识地忽视动物的精神生活相比,无意识地歪曲事实几乎是无害的,直到它接近不寻常和不可思议的地步。

I do have a blurred memory of sitting on the stairs and trying over and over again to tie one of my shoelaces, but that is all that comes back to me of school itself.

我确实有一段模糊的记忆,记得我坐在楼梯上,一次又一次地试着系鞋带,但这就是我在学校里的全部回忆。

I believe in evolution in the sense that a short-tempered man is the successor of a crybaby.

我相信进化,因为一个脾气暴躁的人是爱哭鬼的后代。

I think that only daring speculation can lead us further and not accumulation of facts.

我认为只有大胆的猜测才能使我们走得更远,而不是积累事实。

Face the facts of being what you are, for that is what changes what you are.

面对你是谁的事实,因为这就是改变你是谁的原因。

I didn't go to film school, I went to acting school.

我没有上电影学校,我上的是表演学校。