The folly of mistaking a paradox for a discovery, a metaphor for a proof, a torrent of verbiage for a spring of capital truths, and oneself for an oracle, is inborn in us.

  • -- Paul Valery 保尔·瓦雷里

错误地把悖论当作发现,把暗喻当作证明,把滔滔不绝的空话当作真理的源泉,把自己当作神谕,这些都是我们与生俱来的愚蠢。

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Ignorance more frequently begets confidence than does knowledge: it is those who know little, and not those who know much, who so positively assert that this or that problem will never be solved by science.

无知比知识更容易带来自信:正是那些知道得很少的人,而不是那些知道得很多的人,如此积极地断言这个或那个问题永远不会被科学解决。

Anthropology was the science that gave her the platform from which she surveyed, scolded and beamed at the world.

人类学是一门科学,它为她提供了一个观察、批评和向世界微笑的平台。