Our species needs, and deserves, a citizenry with minds wide awake and a basic understanding of how the world works.

  • -- Carl Sagan 卡尔·萨根

我们人类需要,也应该有一个头脑清醒、对世界如何运转有基本了解的公民。

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When a scientist is ahead of his times, it is often through misunderstanding of current, rather than intuition of future truth. In science there is never any error so gross that it won't one day, from some perspective, appear prophetic.

当一个科学家走在时代的前面,往往是由于对当前的误解,而不是对未来真理的直觉。在科学领域,从来没有任何错误如此严重,以至于有一天,从某种角度来看,它不会显得具有预言性。

Neither let us be slandered from our duty by false accusations against us, nor frightened from it by menaces of destruction to the Government nor of dungeons to ourselves.

不要因对我们的诬告而偏离我们的职责,也不要因对我们自己的毁灭或地牢的威胁而害怕。

You can never rely on musicians. I quit high school at one point to make a go of it with this band and we kept breaking up. So I went back to school.

你永远不能依赖音乐家。有一次,为了和这支乐队一起成功,我从高中退学,然后我们就分手了。所以我回到了学校。

He who exercises government by means of his virtue may be compared to the north polar star, which keeps its place and all the stars turn towards it.

用自己的美德来治理国家的人可以比作北极星,它保持着它的位置,所有的星星都朝着它转。

There is a great difference between knowing and understanding: you can know a lot about something and not really understand it.

知道和理解之间有很大的区别:你可能知道很多事情,但并不真正理解它。

I was a scam artist in high school for a while.

我在高中的时候当过一段时间的骗子。