Our empirical criterion for a series of theories is that it should produce new facts. The idea of growth and the concept of empirical character are soldered into one.

  • -- Imre Lakatos 拉卡托斯

我们对一系列理论的经验标准是,它应该产生新的事实。成长的概念和经验的特性的概念是结合在一起的。

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I'm an actor and I've created a lasting and memorable character named Frasier, who is not me, but who most people think is. So when I have a chance to play something that's different, I embrace it because it's fun; also in this case, he's a memorable character.

我是一个演员,我创造了一个持久而令人难忘的角色,名叫弗雷泽,他不是我,但大多数人认为他是我。所以当我有机会演奏一些不同的东西时,我拥抱它,因为它很有趣;同时,他也是一个令人难忘的角色。

Darwin based his theory on generalizations that were strictly empirical. You can go out and see that organisms do vary, that variations are inherited, and that every organism is capable of increasing its numbers in sufficiently favorable circumstances.

达尔文的理论是建立在严格经验主义的概括基础上的。你可以走出去,看到生物体确实在变化,变异是遗传的,每一个生物体都有能力在足够有利的环境下增加自己的数量。

Any man who takes a job with the idea that it is simply a springboard for something else is a chump. His attention will be more on the other things than on the job at hand and so he will fail.

任何认为一份工作只是其他事情的跳板的人都是笨蛋。他会把更多的注意力放在其他事情上,而不是手头的工作上,所以他会失败。

I was fascinated by a compelling character embroiled in a controversial topic that told the story from a different point of view.

我被一个引人注目的人物吸引住了,他卷入了一个有争议的话题,从不同的角度讲述了这个故事。

Our remedies oft in ourselves do lie, which ascribe to heaven.

我们常常用谎言来补救,这都归功于上天。

Only the ideas that we really live have any value.

只有我们真正生活的思想才有价值。

Growth itself contains the germ of happiness.

成长本身就包含着幸福的萌芽。