Science is built up of facts, as a house is with stones. But a collection of facts is no more a science than a heap of stones is a house.

  • -- Henri Poincare 彭卡勒

科学是建立在事实之上的,正如房子是用石头砌成的一样。但是收集事实并不是一门科学,正如一堆石头并不是一所房子一样。

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To that class we may leave it to refine the vernacular dialects of the country, to enrich those dialects with terms of science borrowed from the Western nomenclature, and to render them by degrees fit vehicles for conveying knowledge to the great mass of the population.

对于这一类人,我们可以把它留给改进本国的方言,用借用西方命名法的科学术语来丰富这些方言,并使它们逐渐成为向广大人民传播知识的工具。

Anyone who attempts to generate random numbers by deterministic means is, of course, living in a state of sin.

当然,任何试图用确定性方法生成随机数的人都是生活在罪恶的状态中。

Science, like art, is not a copy of nature but a re-creation of her.

科学和艺术一样,不是对自然的复制,而是对自然的再创造。

Winning is the science of being totally prepared.

胜利是一门准备充分的科学。