So we need to have a method not designed to give us unwarranted confidence.

因此我们需要一种不会给,我们这种无保证的自信的方法。

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It's not considered good form to say, I think we're about to have a crisis of confidence and the whole house of cards is going to collapse.

说我认为我们即将有个信心危机，或者所有计划都将破灭,是不明智的。

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It's worth saying a word about that, because I want to undermine any great confidence that you may have and what you can believe that scholars tell you, because we keep finding out how wrong we are about all kinds of things.

这里得说的是,我想给自信满满的家伙泼点儿冷水,你曾深信不疑的学者们告诉你的那些事,不断被发现,并在很多问题上都存在纰漏

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