True science is never speculative; it employs hypotheses as suggesting points for inquiry, but it never adopts the hypotheses as though they were demonstrated propositions.

  • -- Cleveland Abbe Sr. 克利夫兰修道院院长

真正的科学从不投机;它使用假设作为研究的建议点,但它从不采用假设,好像它们是被证明的命题。

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Let that which stood in front go behind, let that which was behind advance to the front, let bigots, fools, unclean persons, offer new propositions, let the old propositions be postponed.

从前站在前的,当退到后;从前站在后的,当进到前。顽固的人,愚顽的人,污秽的人,当推陈出新。

I am suggesting that we recognize that in network and interface research there is something as profound (and potential wild) as Artificial Intelligence.

我的意思是,我们应该认识到,在网络和接口研究中,存在着与人工智能一样深刻(而且潜在的野性)的东西。

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。

Doubt comes in at the window when inquiry is denied at the door.

当询问在门口被拒绝时,怀疑从窗口进来。