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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Nobody climbs mountains for scientific reasons. Science is used to raise money for the expeditions, but you really climb for the hell of it.

没有人爬山是出于科学原因。科学是用来为探险筹集资金的,但你真的是为了好玩才去登山的。

Anyone who conducts an argument by appealing to authority is not using his intelligence; he is just using his memory.

以权相争的,不是用自己的聪明;他只是在利用他的记忆。

The significant problems we have cannot be solved at the same level of thinking with which we created them.

我们所面临的重大问题不能用我们创造它们时的思维水平来解决。

At a time like this, scorching irony, not convincing argument, is needed.

在这样的时刻,需要的是灼热的讽刺,而不是令人信服的论据。

I was the bad kid in school. I was usually in trouble.

我是学校里的坏孩子。我经常有麻烦。

Order is heaven's first law.

秩序是天理。