【#海上看中国# 宁波——千年海上丝绸之路承载的梦想化作了这座城市向海而荣的底色】Centuries ago, merchant ships arriving and leaving Ningbo, east China's Zhejiang province, along the emerging sea route now known as the Maritime Silk Road, were loaded with not only silk, porcelain, spices, and even copper coins of the Song dynasty, but also dreams and the ambition to expand human knowledge about the most untamed surface on the planet and the beyond. These adventures of learning contributed to a liberal vibe that still pulses through the city today.

People often think that scientific progress happens when we learn something new that we didn’t know before. Another kind of scientific progress happens when we realize that there is a problem with the way we’ve been looking at things all along. In those cases, figuring out a different way of looking can lead to seeing things more clearly. And as science-fiction writer Isaac Asimov once pointed out, “The most exciting phrase to hear in science, the one that heralds new discoveries, is not “Eureka!’ but ‘That’s funny...’’

The belief in predestination is in many ways a cowardly escape from the task of striving and building up activity along the useful line.
For that reason it will prove a false surpport.

从许多方面看来,人会相信宿命其实是出于怯懦的逃避,因为相信宿命就可以不必在有益的人生方向孜孜矻矻
基于上述理由,宿命论信念只是一种虚假的精神支柱
——阿尔弗雷德·阿德勒 《阿德勒心理学讲义》