But what sin is to the moralist and crime to the jurist so to the scientific man is ignorance.

  • -- Frederick Soddy 弗雷德里克·索迪

但是,对于道德家来说,罪恶是什么;对于法学家来说,犯罪是什么;对于科学家来说,无知也是什么。

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We should reserve the notion of 'morality' for the ways in which we can affect one another's experience for better or worse. Some people use the term 'morality' differently, of course, but I think we have a scientific responsibility to focus the conversation so as to make it most useful.

我们应该保留“道德”的概念,以使我们能够以何种方式影响彼此的经历,无论好坏。当然,有些人使用“道德”一词的方式不同,但我认为,我们有科学责任集中讨论,使其最有用。

I seem to have been like a child playing on the seashore, finding new and then a prettier shell than ordinary, whilst the great ocean of truth lay undiscovered before me.

我好像是一个在海边玩耍的孩子,发现了一个比平常更美丽的新贝壳,而真理的大海却在我面前未被发现。

Opinions differ most when there is least scientific warrant for having any.

当缺乏科学依据的时候,意见分歧就会最大。

Ignorance is bliss only to the ignorant.

无知只对无知者是福。