In science it often happens that scientists say, 'You know that's a really good argument; my position is mistaken', and then they would actually change their minds and you never hear that old view from them again. They really do it. It doesn't happen.

  • -- Carl Sagan 卡尔·萨根

在科学领域,科学家们经常会说,‘你知道这是一个很好的论点;我的立场是错误的’,然后他们就会改变主意,你就再也听不到他们的旧观点了。他们真的做到了。它不会发生。

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School divides life into two segments, which are increasingly of comparable length. As much as anything else, schooling implies custodial care for persons who are declared undesirable elsewhere by the simple fact that a school has been built to serve them.

学校把生活分成两个部分,这两个部分的长度越来越接近。与其他任何事情一样,学校教育意味着对那些在其他地方被宣布为不受欢迎的人的监护,因为一所学校是为他们而建的。

I had never, ever drunk beer in high school, and by the time I got to Tech we were having these parties out in the cotton fields and getting so drunk. I was the champion beer drinker; suddenly I was pouring it down my throat... Insane! Insane!

我在高中从来没有喝过啤酒,当我上技术课的时候,我们在棉花地里开派对,喝得酩酊大醉。我是啤酒冠军;突然,我把它倒进喉咙里……疯了!疯了!

I would sort out all the arguments and see which belonged to fear and which to creativeness. Other things being equal, I would make the decision which had the larger number of creative reasons on its side.

我要把所有的论点都整理出来,看看哪些属于恐惧,哪些属于创造性。在其他条件相同的情况下,我会做出一个有更多创造性原因的决定。

Reading, after a certain age, diverts the mind too much from its creative pursuits. Any man who reads too much and uses his own brain too little falls into lazy habits of thinking.

过了一定的年龄,阅读会使人的思想过分偏离其创造性的追求。读书太多而用脑太少的人会养成懒惰的思维习惯。

No matter what policy initiatives we take on, we are going to need a permanent repository for nuclear fuel based on the law and sound science.

无论我们采取何种政策举措,我们都需要一个基于法律和健全科学的核燃料永久储存库。

Don't take the wrong side of an argument just because your opponent has taken the right side.

不要因为你的对手站在了正确的一边,你就站在了错误的一边。