It is evident that one cannot say anything demonstrable about the problem before having resolved these preliminary questions, and yet we hardly possess the necessary information to solve some of them.

  • -- Georges Cuvier 乔治·居维叶

显然,在解决这些初步问题之前,我们不能对这个问题说任何可以证明的话,然而我们几乎没有必要的资料来解决其中一些问题。

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But in due course it became evident that not only a physical situation qua physics, but the meaning of that situation to people, was sometimes a factor, through the behavior of people, in the start of a fire.

但是,随着时间的推移,很明显,不仅物理情境是一种物理现象,而且这种情境对人们的意义,有时也是一个因素,通过人们的行为,在火灾中起作用。

Question with boldness even the existence of a God; because, if there be one, he must more approve of the homage of reason, than that of blind-folded fear.

大胆地质疑上帝的存在;因为,如果有的话,他一定更赞成理性的敬意,而不是盲目的恐惧。

Here's my Golden Rule for a tarnished age: Be fair with others, but keep after them until they're fair with you.

这是我的黄金法则:对别人要公平,但要坚持下去,直到他们对你公平。

It is evident that skepticism, while it makes no actual change in man, always makes him feel better.

很明显,怀疑主义虽然对人没有实际的改变,却总是使人感觉更好。