But scientists believe that there is a hierarchy of facts, and that a judicious selection can be made. They are right, for otherwise there would be no science, and science does exist...
This shows us how our selection should be made. The most interesting facts are those which can be used several times, those which have a chance of recurring. We have been fortunate enough to be born in a world where there are such facts. Suppose that instead of eighty chemical elements we had eighty millions, and that they were not some common and others rare, but uniformly distributed. Then each time we picked up a new pebble there would be a strong probability that it was composed of some unknown substance. Nothing that we knew of other pebbles would tell us anything about it. Before each new object we sh... (查看原文)
刚看了几页，发现基本每一句都很勉强，还发现一处重大错误 原文：Questions concerning methods of instruction are of importance, firstly, on their own account 译文：所讲授的问题有其重要性，首先在于这些问题本身...（应该是这样翻译吧"关于讲授方法的问题..."）
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予秋
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Ti4nyi
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0 有用 Ti4nyi 2013-05-30 11:01:41
年代比较久远，很多知识已经过时。不过回头看看那个时代的科学家对我们现在已经知道的知识进行探索的思路，对我们理解知识的过去和现在还是有帮助的。翻译的不好，读起来太生硬了。