真相并不总是合理或可能的。
The truth is not always probable, or likely.
某些城市人工制品的永久性赋予了它们纪念碑的品质。
理学的核心思想在于‘理是统一的，但表现形式多样’。
"Causal inference requires careful thought about the assumptions underlying your analysis."
The nightmare thought is that frightening people is the best way to get work out of them, and that somehow the crueler the environment, the more people will rise to the challenge. You want to think, who would you like as your ideal dad? And your ideal dad is somebody who is tough but gentle. And it's a very hard line to make. We need fathers, as it were, the exemplary father figures in society, avoiding the two extremes, which is the authoritarian disciplinarian on the one hand, and on the other, the lax, no-rules option.
The intelligence of that creature known as a crowd is the square root of the number of people in it.