如果事实、逻辑和科学过程都只是随意的“社会化构建出来的”说辞,那么我们能够得到的就只是某种共识--具体而言,也就是同伴群体中的共识,那种青春期的人们或者知识界很多人当中更愿意信奉的共识。
If facts, logic, and scientific procedures are all just arbitrarily "socially constructed" notions, then all that is left is consensus--more specifically peer consensus, the kind of consensus that matters to adolescents or to many among the intelligentsia.
如果我们照顾好海洋,海洋也会照顾好我们。
The study of truth requires a considerable effort - which is why few are willing to undertake it out of love of knowledge - despite the fact that God has implanted a natural appetite for such knowledge in the minds of men.
We may encounter many defeats but we must not be defeated.
明智的人会将自己的信仰与证据相协调。
I'm the kind of person that will just keep going until I make it happen.