Under normal conditions the research scientist is not an innovator but a solver of puzzles, and the puzzles upon which he concentrates are just those which he believes can be both stated and solved within the existing scientific tradition.

  • -- Thomas Kuhn 库恩

在正常情况下,研究科学家不是创新者,而是解谜者,而他所关注的谜题恰恰是那些他认为可以在现有的科学传统中陈述和解决的谜题。

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Of course the word chaos is used in rather a vague sense by a lot of writers, but in physics it means a particular phenomenon, namely that in a nonlinear system the outcome is often indefinitely, arbitrarily sensitive to tiny changes in the initial condition.

当然,“混沌”这个词在很多作家的作品中都有相当模糊的含义,但在物理学中,它指的是一种特殊的现象,即在非线性系统中,结果往往是不确定的,对初始条件的微小变化非常敏感。

Planting native species in our gardens and communities is increasingly important, because indigenous insects, birds and wildlife rely on them. Over thousands, and sometimes millions, of years they have co-evolved to live in local climate and soil conditions.

在我们的花园和社区种植本土物种越来越重要,因为本土昆虫、鸟类和野生动物都依赖它们。在数千年,有时甚至是数百万年的时间里,它们共同进化,适应了当地的气候和土壤条件。

The role of the teacher is to create the conditions for invention rather than provide ready-made knowledge.

教师的作用是为发明创造条件,而不是提供现成的知识。

Order is a necessary condition for anything the human mind is to understand.

秩序是任何人类头脑能够理解的事物的必要条件。