The function of intellect is to provide a means of modifying our reactions to the circumstances of life, so that we may secure pleasure, the symptom of welfare.

  • -- Edward Thorndike 桑代克

智力的作用是提供一种方法来改变我们对生活环境的反应,使我们能够获得快乐,这是幸福的征兆。

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It is rather a problem of how to secure the best use of resources known to any of the members of society, for ends whose relative importance only those individuals know.

这是一个如何确保社会任何成员所知道的资源得到最佳利用的问题,其目的的相对重要性只有这些个人知道。

Prediction is not just one of the things your brain does. It is the primary function of the neo-cortex, and the foundation of intelligence.

预测不仅仅是你的大脑所做的事情之一。它是新皮质的主要功能,也是智力的基础。

Science has fulfilled her function when she has ascertained and enunciated truth.

当科学确定并阐明真理时,它就完成了它的功能。

I have cultivated my hysteria with pleasure and terror.

我因高兴和恐惧而变得歇斯底里。

There is more pleasure in loving than in being beloved.

爱比被爱更有乐趣。

Will and intellect are one and the same thing

意志和智力是一回事

We need to make sure we have secure borders.

我们需要确保边境安全。

The intellect is always fooled by the heart.

智慧总是被心愚弄。