By any reasonable measure of achievement, the faith of the Enlightenment thinkers in science was justified.

  • -- E. O. Wilson 威尔森

以任何合理的成就衡量,启蒙思想家对科学的信仰都是有道理的。

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Science has sometimes been said to be opposed to faith, and inconsistent with it. But all science, in fact, rests on a basis of faith, for it assumes the permanence and uniformity of natural laws - a thing which can never be demonstrated.

科学有时被说成是与信仰对立的,而且与信仰不一致。但事实上,所有的科学都建立在信仰的基础上,因为它假定自然规律的持久性和统一性——这是永远无法证明的。

Some acts of faith, I believe, have the power to grant us something infinitely wiser than we imagine.

我相信,一些信仰的行为,有能力赋予我们比我们想象的更睿智的东西。

The herd instinct among forecasters makes sheep look like independent thinkers.

预测者的羊群本能让羊看起来像是独立的思考者。

Contemporary thinkers would say that man is continuously transcending himself.

当代思想家会说,人在不断地超越自己。