Some otherwise sane scientists have seriously proposed that we tuck this deadly garbage under the edges of drifting continents but how can they be sure the moving land masses will climb over the waste and not just push it forward?

  • -- David R. Brower 大卫·R·布罗尔

一些头脑清醒的科学家严肃地提出,我们应该把这些致命的垃圾埋在漂移的大陆边缘,但他们怎么能确定移动的大陆块会爬过这些垃圾,而不只是推动它们前进呢?

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Although reading the classics in Latin in school may be not as fulfilling as it would be at a more mature age, few scientists can afford the time for such diversion later in life.

虽然在学校里读拉丁文经典可能不如在更成熟的时候那么令人满足,但很少有科学家能在以后的生活中有时间做这样的消遣。

One way we can enliven the imagination is to push it toward the illogical. We're not scientists. We don't always have to make the logical, reasonable leap.

我们激活想象力的一种方法是把它推向不合逻辑的方向。我们不是科学家。我们不必总是做出合乎逻辑的、合理的飞跃。