We have to recognize that real faith has no easy answers. 我们须认识到真正的信仰，从来没有简单答案 It's difficult and stubborn. 它是困难的、固执而不顺从的 It involves an ongoing struggle, 牵涉不间断的挣扎 a continual questioning of what
And the more I thought about it, the more it made sense that he doubted, 我越想越觉得他的怀疑是源自于 because doubt is essential to faith. 怀疑是相信的必要部分 If this seems a startling idea at first, 如果最初听起来让人吃惊的话 consider
In fact, most of us do, 事实上，我们大多数也会拒绝 whether we're atheist or theist or anywhere in between or beyond, for that matter, 无论我们是无神论者或有神论者，或中间派或超越二者，就此而言 what drives us is that, despite our doubts an
Writing biography is a strange thing to do. 撰写传记是一件不可思议的事情 It's a journey into the foreign territory of somebody else's life, 记下别人的一生就如异国旅程一样 a journey, an exploration that can take you places
In effect, they are the infidels. 实际上，他们才是异教徒 Like fundamentalists of all religious stripes, they have no questions, only answers. 像所有不同宗教的原教旨主义者一样，他们没有发问问题，只有答案 They found the perfect antidote to tho
We do our best to ignore the fact that we don't always have it, 我们尽管忽略一项事实，我们并不常有敬畏之心 and that not everything can be explained. 也不是一切事情都能解释 Yet whether you're a rationalist or a mystic, 然而，无论你
At worst, possession -- that he'd been seized by an evil jinn, 往坏处想，他被邪恶的神怪附身了 a spirit out to deceive him, even to crush the life out of him. 要来欺骗他，甚至来取他的性命 In fact, he was so sure that he could
Still, some boundaries are larger than others. 然而，有些领域的边界更为宽广 So a human encountering the divine, as Muslims believe Muhammad did, 所以当人类遇到了神性时，正如伊斯兰教徒相信穆罕默德一样 to the rationalist, this is a matter not
And yes, there was a lot of conflict and debate and argument, 当然，这其中有很多的矛盾和辩论， but that allowed everyone around the table to be creative, to solve the problem, and to change the device. 不过这使得所有人都变得有创造
In Oxford in the 1950s, there was a fantastic doctor, who was very unusual, named Alice Stewart. 在20世纪50年代的牛津，有一位相当优秀而又极不寻常的医生，她叫Alice Stewart Alice。 And Alice was unusual partly because, of course, s
If we aren't going to be afraid of conflict, we have to see it as thinking, and then we have to get really good at it. 如果我们不惧怕矛盾的话，我们必须把它当作思考，然后我们必须变得很擅长。 So, recently, I worked with an executive name
It flew in the face of conventional wisdom, which was huge enthusiasm for the cool new technology of that age, which was the X-ray machine. 这对于这一观念是很大的冲击，尤其是对于当时的新科技X光机器的巨大热情。 And it flew in the face
She worked with a statistician named George Kneale, and George was pretty much everything that Alice wasn't. 她当时与一位名叫George Kneale的统计学家合作，而George刚好与Alice互补。 So, Alice was very outgoing and sociable, a
Now, Alice had trouble getting funding for her research. 当时，Alice很难为她的研究筹备到资金。 In the end, she got just 1,000 pounds from the Lady Tata Memorial prize. 最后,她只得到了1000英镑，从Lady Tata纪念奖得来的。 And that meant
So what does that kind of constructive conflict require? 那么这种建设性的矛盾要求什么呢？ Well, first of all, it requires that we find people who are very different from ourselves. 首先呢，它需要我们去找到十分不同的人们。 That means we
So how do organizations think? Well, for the most part, they don't. 那么这些组织是怎么想的呢？其实大多数情况下，他们是不思考的。 And that isn't because they don't want to, it's really because they can't. 这不是因为他们不想，而是因为他们无法思考。 And
I think we need to be teaching these skills to kids and adults at every stage of their development, 我认为我们应该向所有小孩和大人都教授这些技巧， if we want to have thinking organizations and a thinking society. 如果我们想要能够思考
