It's very hard for me to know what to say about fusion right now, inasmuch as it is not yet scientifically feasible. I just can't understand how so many people are able to predict so much about something that still isn't scientifically possible.

  • -- David R. Brower 大卫·R·布罗尔

我现在很难知道该怎么说核聚变,因为它在科学上还不可行。我只是不明白为什么这么多人能预测这么多科学上还不可能的事情。

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Balzac's ambition was to be omnipotent. He would be Michelangelesque, and that by sheer force of minuteness. He exaggerated scientifically, and made things gigantic by a microscopic fulness of detail.

巴尔扎克的抱负是无所不能。他将成为米开朗基罗式的人物,这完全是由于他的细致入微。他在科学上夸大其词,用微观的细节使事物变得巨大。

He was what I often think is a dangerous thing for a statesman to be - a student of history; and like most of those who study history, he learned from the mistakes of the past how to make new ones.

我常常认为,作为一个政治家,他是一件危险的事情——学习历史;和大多数学习历史的人一样,他从过去的错误中学习如何犯新的错误。

The only kind of coercion I recommend is mutual coercion, mutually agreed upon by the majority of the people affected.

我建议的唯一一种强制是相互强制,由受影响的大多数人共同同意。

To be scientifically literate is to empower yourself to know when someone else is full of bullshit.

科学素养就是让自己知道别人什么时候在胡扯。

I think what I need to do is stay awake while I'm sleeping so I can see what I'm dreaming better!!

我想我需要做的就是在睡觉的时候保持清醒,这样我就能更好地看到我在做什么梦!!

I have done what people do, my life makes a reasonable showing. Can I go back to my books now?

我做过的人都做过,我的人生做出了合理的展示。我现在可以回去看书了吗?