If they couldn't be proven wrong, they're not interesting enough to be science.

如果理论不能够被证伪，那它们就算不上科学。

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The idea of falsifiability is that what distinguishes science from non science is that scientific predictions make strong claims about the world and these claims are of a sort that they could be proven wrong.

可证伪性是指,科学与非科学的区别在于,科学能够做出关于世界的有力预测,而这些预测是可以被证伪的。

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They're invariably cited as among the most beautiful and exquisite lines in Paradise Lost but on some level they've proven the bane of scholars because they can't be squared with any of the poem's theological message.

它们被单调地引证为,中最美最细致的诗句,但在某些层面他们证明了学者的祸害,因为它们并不能与诗歌所传达的神学信息相一致。

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We prove things in mathematics that have never been proven before or we find new ways to prove these theorems or what have you and we can be creative.

我们用数学去证明从未被证明过的事物,我们探寻新的方法去证明那些定理,或其他诸如此类,总之,我们具有创造力

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Many of these behaviorist techniques have proven to be quite useful.

许多行为主义者所提出的技术,都被证明是非常有效的。

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That Satan is still able to doubt the legitimacy of God's power is a testimony to the complexity, I think, of the analysis of power in Paradise Lost. No power, not even God's power, can be irresistibly and indisputably proven.

我认为，撒旦尚能怀疑上帝力量的正统性,就证明了，《失乐园》中对力量的分析的复杂性，即使是上帝的力量，也不能被不可抗拒，无可置疑的证明。

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