Science is simply common sense at its best, that is, rigidly accurate in observation, and merciless to fallacy in logic.

  • -- Thomas Henry Huxley 赫胥黎

科学充其量不过是常识,也就是说,在观察上严格准确,在逻辑上对谬误毫不留情。

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We may take it to be the accepted idea that the Mosaic books were not handed down to us for our instruction in scientific knowledge, and that it is our duty to ground our scientific beliefs upon observation and inference, unmixed with considerations of a different order.

我们可以接受这样一种观点,即摩西书并不是为了传授我们科学知识而流传下来的,我们有责任把我们的科学信念建立在观察和推理的基础上,不掺杂其他顺序的考虑。

I maintain there is much more wonder in science than in pseudoscience. And in addition, to whatever measure this term has any meaning, science has the additional virtue, and it is not an inconsiderable one, of being true.

我坚持认为科学比伪科学有更多的奇迹。此外,无论这个术语的意义是什么,科学还有一个额外的优点,那就是它的真实性。

I had a terrible education. I attended a school for emotionally disturbed teachers.

我的教育很糟糕。我曾就读于一所教师情绪失常的学校。

World domination is such an ugly phrase. I prefer to call it world optimisation.

统治世界是一个如此丑陋的词语。我更愿意称之为世界优化。

The philosophy of one century is the common sense of the next.

一个世纪的哲学是下一个世纪的常识。

A traveler without observation is a bird without wings.

没有观察的旅行者就像没有翅膀的鸟。

There is nothing more illogical than cold logic.

没有什么比冷酷的逻辑更不合逻辑的了。

Taste is the common sense of genius.

品味是天才的常识。