I believe that historians and analysts of historical events need the authority of facts supplied by living witnesses to the events, which they make their subject.

  • -- Ibrahim Babangida 易卜拉欣·巴班吉达

我认为,历史学家和历史事件的分析者需要事件的现场目击者所提供的事实的权威性,他们把这些事件作为他们研究的主题。

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People take the longest possible paths, digress to numerous dead ends, and make all kinds of mistakes. Then historians come along and write summaries of this messy, nonlinear process and make it appear like a simple, straight line.

人们走的路越远越好,走的路越走越远,走的路越走越远,走的路越走越远,走的路越走越远,犯的错误也越多。然后,历史学家们对这个混乱的非线性过程进行总结,使它看起来像一条简单的直线。

I think if I weren't so squeamish, I would have been some sort of forensic analyst. And I can't do anything with a microscope, because then I start thinking about the world of germs around us.

我想如果我不是那么神经质的话,我可能已经是某种法医分析师了。我不能用显微镜做任何事,因为我开始思考我们周围的细菌世界。

I think that whether you're on the right or on the left as an economist or as a policy maker, every serious analyst I know agrees that at some point you have to deal with entitlements.

我认为,无论你是右派还是左派,无论是经济学家还是政策制定者,我所认识的每一位严肃的分析师都同意,在某个时候,你必须处理福利问题。

The being cannot be termed rational or virtuous, who obeys any authority, but that of reason.

服从任何权威的人,除了理性的权威外,不能被称为理性的或有德的。

The ultimate court of appeal is observation and experiment... not authority.

最终的上诉法院是观察和实验…没有权威。