Science is very hostile to innovation when it challenges existing theory, sort of like management, the same thing.

科学对创新是有敌意的,当创新在挑战已存在的理论，跟管理一样，同样的道理。

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What's the method of science? You have a theory; what do you do? Put it to the test.

科学的方法是什么，现在有一个理论;,准备怎么办，验证它。

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So we're going to be doing political science or political science as it meets Game Theory for the rest of the day.

我们将在今天接下来的时间学习政治科学,亦即是政治和博弈论的结合

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The real insurance industry, as I mentioned before, began in the 1600s with the invention of probability theory and with the invention of life tables for-- the invention of actuarial science; but, it grew slowly.

正如我刚才所提到的,真正的保险始于17世纪,这得益于概率论,寿命表以及,精算学的产生,但是,它的发展很缓慢

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If I can use science fiction to talk about the possibility of splitting, and use that against the personality theory, I'm entitled to use science fiction examples to talk about the possibility of bodies splitting,and ask, what kind of problem that would raise for the body theory?

如果我能用科幻作品来谈论人格的分裂，用来驳斥人格理论，我也可以用科幻作品的例子,来探讨肉体分裂的可能，并提问，那会给肉体理论造成什么问题？

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