It's not a valid experiment if it has no chance of showing that my hypothesis is flawed.

如果根本没可能证明我的假设,是有瑕疵的，那么这个试验。

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There is a 1% chance it is beyond, but the 99% surface is spherical.

只有1%超出了，至少是99%可能位于的范围的轮廓。

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And the answer that strikes me as most plausible is, it's the very fact that there's a significant chance of death that helps explain why people do this.

让我觉得最似乎合理的答案是，正是有很大的死亡的可能性这个事实,解释了为什么人们这么做。

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So we have to come up--we mortals-- have to come up with some other device, and our device to remember things is to try to write it down because my premise here is, if you can write music down clearly you are hearing it, clearly, and you would have a better chance of remembering it if you could write it down.

因此我们普通人,必须开发出,不得不开发出一些其它的方法,而我们用来记忆的方法,就是试着写下来,它的前提是,如果你可以将听到的音乐清楚地写下来,很清楚,那么你就更有可能,记住它,前提是你能写下它

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