The discovery of truth is prevented more effectively, not by the false appearance things present and which mislead into error, not directly by weakness of the reasoning powers, but by preconceived opinion, by prejudice

  • -- Arthur Schopenhauer 亚瑟·叔本华

要更有效地阻止真理的发现,不是因为眼前的假象,也不是因为推理能力的弱点,而是因为先入之见和偏见

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What can we gain by sailing to the moon if we are not able to cross the abyss that separates us from ourselves? This is the most important of all voyages of discovery, and without it, all the rest are not only useless, but disastrous.

如果我们不能越过分隔我们和我们自己的深渊,那么驶向月球又有什么好处呢?这是所有发现之旅中最重要的一次,没有它,其他所有的航行不仅毫无用处,而且是灾难性的。

There are two possible outcomes: if the result confirms the hypothesis, then you've made a measurement. If the result is contrary to the hypothesis, then you've made a discovery.

有两种可能的结果:如果结果证实了假设,那么您就进行了度量。如果结果与假设相反,那么你就有了一个发现。

From their experience or from the recorded experience of others (history), men learn only what their passions and their metaphysical prejudices allow them to learn.

从他们的经验或他人(历史)的记录经验中,人们只能学到他们的激情和形而上学的偏见允许他们学到的东西。

I never read a book before previewing it; it prejudices a man so.

我从来没有在预览前读过一本书;它使人如此偏见。