Conflict is the gadfly of thought. It stirs us to observation and memory. It instigates to invention. It shocks us out of sheeplike passivity, and sets us at noting and contriving.

  • -- John Dewey 约翰·杜威

冲突是思想的牛虻。它激励我们去观察和记忆。它促进发明。它使我们摆脱了盲从的被动状态,使我们善于注意和设计。

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We may take it to be the accepted idea that the Mosaic books were not handed down to us for our instruction in scientific knowledge, and that it is our duty to ground our scientific beliefs upon observation and inference, unmixed with considerations of a different order.

我们可以接受这样一种观点,即摩西书并不是为了传授我们科学知识而流传下来的,我们有责任把我们的科学信念建立在观察和推理的基础上,不掺杂其他顺序的考虑。

Supposing everyone lived at one time what would they say. They would observe that stringing string beans is universal.

假设每个人都生活在同一时间,他们会说什么?他们会发现,串豆子是很普遍的。

People on both sides of any conflict believe they are right, whether it's on a TV show or in the real world.

任何冲突的双方都相信自己是正确的,无论是在电视节目中还是在现实世界中。

The man of courage never lost it.

有勇气的人永远不会失去它。