真相与真理
1.The principle, method and the goal of investigations is recognition of the truth, even though the truth may be in conflict with our social, ethical and public circumstances.
—— Theodor Billroth, 1829——1894
【译文】科学研究的原则、方法和目的是揭示真相，即使真相可能与我们的社会、伦理和公众环境相冲突。
2.A doctor should always tell the truth; he should not hide it, for the patient is entitled to know the truth.
—— Johan Mikulicz-Radecki, 1850——1905
【译文】任何情况下医生都应该说真话，不应该隐瞒，因为患者有权知道实情。
3.Next to the promulgation of the truth, the best thing I can conceive that a man can do is the public recantation of an error.
—— Joseph Lister, 1827——1912
【译文】真相公布后，我认为人们可以做的最好的事情就是公开承认过去的错误。
4.Men tried to add to and adorn the truth, and convert simplicity into complexity and the clear into the opaque.Hence, the development of an enormous number of entirely unnecessary additions to the methods of surgery——additions so numerous and complicated that few know them all and none understood them all.
—— Chalmers Da Costa, 1863——1933
【译文】人们试图为真理涂脂抹粉，把简单变复杂，清晰变模糊。 因此，在外科手术方法上延伸出许多完全不必要的额外内容——如此之多，如此复杂，以至于几乎无人知道其原貌，也无人能理解其全部。
5.A new truth does not triumph by convincing its opponents ...but rather because they eventually die.
—— Max Planck, 1858——1947
【译文】 一个新的真理并不是通过说服其对手获胜……而是因为对手最终会自行消亡。
6.Where the truth lies? Not in numbers, for a small series carefully observed and recorded by a critical expert may mean more than several hundreds furnished by a team and analysed by slide rule.Not in the magic of a name, for truth may lie in the contribution of the small town practitioner, penned apologetically and hidden in the pages of a little read journal, rather than in the figures hammered out by platinum secretaries in the chromium laboratories of the million dollar professor.
—— William Heneage Ogilvie, 1887——1971
【译文】真相在哪里？它不体现在数量上，由一位有判断力的专家仔细观察和记录的一个小样本研究，可能比一个团队所提供的，用计算尺（译者注：即对数计算尺，在电子计算机出现之前广泛使用的一种模拟计算机）分析出来的数百例资料更有价值。真理也与显赫的名字无关，它可能只是来自一个小镇的执业医生的贡献，他们谦逊地记录下来，发表在一个阅读量很小的杂志上。而出自身价百万美元教授的高档实验室，由铂金级秘书精心打造出来的数字（反倒不一定是真理）。
【点评】环顾我们目前所处的创新性研究氛围和追求，是否有很多值得我们冷静思考的问题呢？
7.Should not established authorities ...accept the fact that many truths will be proved false, and aphorisms are better set in sand than in stone, and that the maverick of the present will contribute to the development of a new mean and new credo for the future.(https://www.daowen.com)
—— Seymour Schwarz
【译文】不应该打造所谓的权威……应接受这样的事实：即许多真理将被证明是错误的。名言警句最好写在沙子上而不是刻在石头上，如今的特立独行将有助于未来新理念和新信条的发展。
【点评】真希望我们的教育工作者、人才评价和选拔部门，以及科研管理机构的领导们多读读这段话！
8.It's just easier to offer false hope than bitter truth.
—— Mark Pleatman
【译文】提供虚假的希望比痛苦的真相更容易。
9.The ABCs of any M & M conference are: accuse, blame, criticize, defend(yourself), evade truth.
【译文】疑难、死亡病例讨论会的ABCDE是：控诉（accuse）、指责（blame）、批评（criticize）、（为自己）辩护（defend），以及逃避真相（evade truth）。
10.Our sick patients are very complex.Events follow in a rush.But behind this complex chaos there is always an eternal truth that should be and can be disclosed and announced.
—— Moshe Schein
【译文】我们的患者非常复杂，事件接踵而至。但在这种纷乱复杂的背后，总有一个应该，也能够揭示并公布出来的永恒真理。
11.Truth is right and science is but a synonym to truth.Efficiency must acknowledge truth.Secrecy is the peculiar disease of efficiency.Publicity is the cure of the disease secrecy.
—— Ernest Amory Codman, 1869——1940
【译文】 真理是正确的，科学只不过是真理的同义词。效率必须承认真理。隐匿是效率所特有的毛病。公开才是治愈这种毛病的良方。
12.In science, one never possesses the complete truth.One can only look for what, at a given time, cannot be proved wrong.
—— Daniel E.Lieberman
【译文】在科学上，一个人永远不会拥有完美的真理。人们只会在特定的时间里，去寻找那些无法被证明是错误的东西。
13.Truth, like surgery, may hurt, but it cures.
—— Han Suyin
【译文】真理，就像外科手术一样，有伤害，但能治愈疾病。