Must faith be exactly that, the willingness and ability to believe in the face of a lack of evidence? If one could find the evidence, would then the faith be dead?

  • -- Clifford D. Simak 西马克·克利福德

信仰一定就是这样吗?在缺乏证据的情况下,愿意并有能力去相信吗?如果能找到证据,那么信仰会消亡吗?

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I do believe we have to understand why reality turned out to be different than expectations and estimates. But you have more public service - certainly many of you - than I have ever had, and you recognize that this is not unusual.

我确实认为,我们必须理解为什么现实与预期和估计不同。但是你们有比我更多的公共服务——当然你们中的许多人——你们认识到这并不罕见。

I was writing a chapter of Beautiful Evidence on the subject of the sculptural pedestal, which led to my thinking about what's up on the pedestal - the great leader.

我写了一章关于雕像底座的美丽证据,这让我想到了底座上的东西——伟大的领袖。

It has yet to be shown by direct biochemical methods, as opposed to the indirect genetic evidence mentioned earlier, that the code is indeed a triplet code.

与之前提到的间接遗传证据相反,直接的生化方法还没有证明这个密码确实是一个三重密码。

It took a while for me to grasp that my colleagues believe I have made an impact on the history of cinema.

我花了一段时间才明白,同事们相信我对电影史产生了影响。

The ability of discerning high quality unavoidably implies the ability of identifying shortcomings.

识别高质量的能力不可避免地意味着识别缺点的能力。

When you put faith, hope and love together, you can raise positive kids in a negative world.

当你把信念、希望和爱放在一起,你就能在一个消极的世界里培养出积极向上的孩子。

The greatest source of happiness is the ability to be grateful at all times.

幸福最大的源泉是始终心存感激的能力。

Faith is often the boast of the man  who is too lazy to investigate.

信心常是懒惰而不愿考察的人所夸耀的。