In trials of fact, by oral testimony, the proper inquiry is not whether is it possible that the testimony may be false, but whether there is sufficient probability that it is true.

  • -- Simon Greenleaf 格林利夫

在事实的审判中,通过口头证词,正确的调查不是看证词是否可能是假的,而是看是否有足够的可能性证明它是真的。

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Love is free; to promise for ever to love the same woman is not less absurd than to promise to believe the same creed; such a vow in both cases excludes us from all inquiry.

爱是免费的;承诺永远爱同一个女人并不比承诺相信同一个信条更荒谬;在这两种情况下,这样的誓言把我们排除在一切调查之外。

Science is organized common sense where many a beautiful theory was killed by an ugly fact.

科学是有组织的常识,许多美好的理论都被丑陋的事实扼杀了。

Science at its best is an open-minded method of inquiry, not a belief system.

科学充其量是一种开放的探究方法,而不是一种信仰体系。

I am also a writer. That is a fact not known by the public in general.

我也是一名作家。这是一个公众普遍不知道的事实。