Poetry, you remember--this is a scientist-- is no more true than religion, but it can perform the function of religion and is therefore capable of saving us.

科学家曾说过-,诗歌并不比宗教更真实，但是诗歌具有宗教的作用,并因此可以拯救人类。

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We all do believe something makes it true that two plus one equals three, but it's not the fact that empirical objects-- We don't do empirical experiments to see whether two plus one equals three.

我们都相信有些东西,使2加1等于3是正确的,但这不是说现实的东西,我们不会在现实中做实验,去看看二加一是不是等于三

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Right now I want to go out with Peggy Sue, but if I knew these true--It's not that you think, oh your roommate has made it up, that these are lies; these are slander.

现在我想和Peggy，Sue约会，但如果我知道这些事实，不是你所想的那样，你室友瞎编的，都是些谎话;,它们是诽谤。

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