In so far as such a theory is empirically correct it will also tell us what empirical facts it should be possible to observe in a given set of circumstances.

  • -- Talcott Parsons 帕森斯

只要这种理论在经验上是正确的,它还将告诉我们,在给定的一组情况下,应该能够观察到哪些经验事实。

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The theory that can absorb the greatest number of facts, and persist in doing so, generation after generation, through all changes of opinion and detail, is the one that must rule all observation.

能够吸收最多的事实,并坚持这样做,一代又一代,通过所有的意见和细节的变化,是一个理论,必须统治所有的观察。

As you say, the way string theory requires all these extra dimensions and this comes from certain consistency requirements about how string should behave and so on.

正如你所说,弦理论需要所有这些额外的维度这来自于弦应该如何表现的一致性要求等等。