We know: of course, with regard to the market and similar social structures, a great many facts which we cannot measure and on which indeed we have only some very imprecise and general information.

  • -- Friedrich August von Hayek 哈耶克

我们知道:当然,关于市场和类似的社会结构,有许多事实是我们无法衡量的,而且我们确实只有一些非常不精确和笼统的资料。

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It should simply be an empirical matter whether the climate is changing or not and whether we're responsible. But the various sides of the debate have now become so tribal that it's no longer a matter of changing our views as more information comes in.

这应该是一个简单的经验问题,无论气候是否在变化,我们是否负有责任。但是,辩论的各方现在已经变得如此部落化,随着更多信息的到来,改变我们的观点不再是问题。

Our conscience is not the vessel of eternal verities. It grows with our social life, and a new social condition means a radical change in conscience.

我们的良心不是永恒真理的容器。它随着我们的社会生活而成长,新的社会条件意味着良心的彻底改变。

Women have talent and intelligence but, due to social constraints and prejudices, it is still a long distance away from the goal of gender equality.

女性有天赋和智慧,但由于社会的制约和偏见,距离性别平等的目标还有很长的路要走。

The notion that one will not survive a particular catastrophe is, in general terms, a comfort since it is equivalent to abolishing the catastrophe.

一般来说,认为一个人无法在特定的灾难中幸存下来的想法是一种安慰,因为这相当于废除了灾难。

Where is the Life we have lost in living? Where is the wisdom we have lost in knowledge? Where is the knowledge we have lost in information?

我们在生活中失去的生命在哪里?我们在知识中失去的智慧在哪里?我们在信息中丢失的知识在哪里?

Decisions! And a general, a commander in chief who has not got the quality of decision, then he is no good.

决定!而一个将军,一个没有决断能力的三军统帅,那他就一无是处。