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From time immemorial, man has desired to comprehend the complexity of nature in terms of as few elementary concepts as possible.
自古以来，人类就希望用尽可能少的基本概念来理解自然的复杂性。
— Mohammad Abdus Salam 穆罕默德·阿卜杜斯·萨拉姆
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更多好句 ↗It is characteristic of the design of scientific research that exquisite attention is devoted to methodological problems that can be solved, while the pretense is made that the ones that cannot be solved are really nothing to worry about.
科学研究设计的特点是，对可以解决的方法论问题给予细致的关注，而对不能解决的问题却假装根本不用担心。
Richard Lewontin
理查德·莱旺顿
Imagine a world in which every single person on the planet is given free access to the sum of all human knowledge. That's what we're doing.
想象一下这样一个世界:地球上的每一个人都可以自由获取人类所有知识的总和。这就是我们正在做的。
Jimmy Wales
吉米·威尔士
In praising science, it does not follow that we must adopt the very poor philosophies which scientific men have constructed. In philosophy they have much more to learn than to teach.
在赞扬科学的时候，并不是说我们必须采纳科学家们所建立的那些非常糟糕的哲学。在哲学上，他们要学的比要教的多得多。
William Ralph Inge
英格
Opinions differ most when there is least scientific warrant for having any.
当缺乏科学依据的时候，意见分歧就会最大。
Daisy Bates
黛西·贝茨
Ignorance of what real learning is, and a consequent suspicion of it; materialism, and a consequent intellectual laxity, both of these have done destructive work in the colleges.
对什么是真正的学问一无所知，因而产生了怀疑;物质主义，以及随之而来的智力上的松懈，这两者都对大学造成了毁灭性的影响。
Katharine Fullerton Gerould
凯瑟琳·富勒顿·杰罗德
When dogma enters the brain, all intellectual activity ceases.
当教条进入大脑时，所有的智力活动都停止了。
Robert Anton Wilson
罗伯特·安东·威尔逊