What is the good of drawing conclusions from experience? I don't deny we sometimes draw the right conclusions, but don't we just as often draw the wrong ones?

  • -- Georg Christoph Lichtenberg 利希滕贝格

从经验中得出结论有什么好处?我不否认我们有时会得出正确的结论,但我们不也常常得出错误的结论吗?

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Half the wrong conclusions at which mankind arrive are reached by the abuse of metaphors, and by mistaking general resemblance or imaginary similarity for real identity.

人类所得出的错误结论,有一半是由于滥用比喻,把普遍的相似或想象的相似误当成真实的同一性而得出的。

Man is too quick at forming conclusions.

人类下结论太快了。