To the intelligent man with an interest in human nature it must often appear strange that so much of the energy of the scientific world has been spent on the study of the body and so little on the study of the mind.

  • -- Edward Thorndike 桑代克

对于一个对人性感兴趣的聪明人来说,科学界把如此多的精力花在对身体的研究上,而对心灵的研究却如此之少,这一定常常显得很奇怪。

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Our creator is the same and never changes despite the names given Him by people here and in all parts of the world. Even if we gave Him no name at all, He would still be there, within us, waiting to give us good on this earth.

我们的创造者是一样的,永远不会改变,尽管这里和世界各地的人们给他起了名字。即使我们不给他任何名字,他仍然会在那里,在我们里面,等待给我们在这个地球上的好。

A new scientific truth does not triumph by convincing its opponents and making them see the light, but rather because its opponents eventually die, and a new generation grows up that is familiar with it.

一个新的科学真理不是通过说服它的对手并让他们看到光明而取得胜利,而是因为它的对手最终会消亡,而熟悉它的新一代会成长起来。

Biblical orthodoxy without compassion is surely the ugliest thing in the world.

没有同情心的圣经正统肯定是世界上最丑陋的事情。

Scientific theory is a contrived foothold in the chaos of living phenomena.

科学理论是人为地立足于混沌的生活现象。

The deepest principle in human nature is the craving to be appreciated.

人性中最深刻的原则是渴望被欣赏。

Human nature is such that monogamy is a really hard thing to achieve.

人类的本性就是一夫一妻制很难实现。