"When you cannot measure it, when you cannot express it in numbers, your knowledge is of a meagre and unsatisfactory kind." This observation scores high on the list of silly remarks made by clever men, to which its author, Lord Kelvin, made several sterling contributions. The knowledge possessed by Plato and Shakespeare, Austen and Darwin was neither meagre nor unsatisfactory.
「當你不能度量自己所言、不能用數字將它表達出來時，你的瞭解就是貧乏的，不能令人滿意。」這番話在聰明人講過的蠢話排行榜上排名相當高，講出這句話的開爾文勳爵(Lord Kelvin)爲該榜單貢獻了好幾條頗有份量的高見。柏拉圖(Plato)、莎士比亞(Shakespeare)、奧斯丁(Austen)和達爾文(Darwin)所掌握的知識可既不貧乏，也不令人失望。
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