The simplest and most psychologically satisfying explanation of any observed phenomenon is that it happened that way because someone wanted it to happen that way.

  • -- Thomas Sowell 托马斯·索厄尔

对于任何观察到的现象,最简单、心理上最令人满意的解释是,它是以这种方式发生的,因为有人希望它以这种方式发生。

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Could that have been what happened to the human race - a willing perversity that set at naught all human values which had been so hardly won and structured in the light of reason for a span of more than a million years?

难道这就是发生在人类身上的事情——一种心甘情愿的任性行为,无视人类的一切价值,而这些价值在一百多万年的时间里是如此难以赢得,而且是按照理性来构建的吗?

The simplest and cheapest of all reforms within institutional science is to switch from the passive to the active voice in writing about science.

在机构科学的所有改革中,最简单、最廉价的方法就是在科学写作中从被动语态转换为主动语态。

Once I went to bed in Orlando and I woke up in Atlanta. I have no idea how that happened.

有一次我在奥兰多睡觉,在亚特兰大醒来。我不知道这是怎么发生的。

The simplest things that need self-restraint are the most difficult to replicate.

需要自我约束的最简单的东西是最难复制的。