I am pleased to be considered a 'denier' in this cause if this puts me in the class with those who defied prevailing 'scientific consensus' that the earth was flat and that the earth was the not the center of the universe.

  • -- William Lyons 威廉·里昂斯

我很高兴在这个问题上被认为是一个“否决者”,如果这让我和那些反对地球是平的、地球不是宇宙中心这一普遍的“科学共识”的人站在一起的话。

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In the discovery of secret things and in the investigation of hidden causes, stronger reasons are obtained from sure experiments and demonstrated arguments than from probable conjectures and the opinions of philosophical speculators of the common sort.

在发现秘密的事物和研究隐藏的原因时,从可靠的实验和论证中得到的理由比从一般哲学投机者的推测和意见中得到的理由更充分。

A new scientific truth does not triumph by convincing its opponents and making them see the light, but rather because its opponents eventually die, and a new generation grows up that is familiar with it.

一个新的科学真理不是通过说服它的对手并让他们看到光明而取得胜利,而是因为它的对手最终会消亡,而熟悉它的新一代会成长起来。

An ocean traveler has even more vividly the impression that the ocean is made of waves than that it is made of water.

海洋旅行者对海洋是由波浪构成的印象甚至比海洋是由水构成的印象更为生动。

The reduction of the universe to a single being, the expansion of a single being even to God, this is love.

把宇宙缩小到一个单一的存在,把一个单一的存在扩大到上帝,这就是爱。

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

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。

The principle of subordination is the great bond of union and harmony through the universe.

服从原则是贯穿宇宙的统一与和谐的伟大纽带。

Nobody likes having salt rubbed into their wounds, even if it is the salt of the earth.

没有人喜欢把盐涂在伤口上,即使这是盐。

Let tenderness pour from your eyes, the way sun gazes warmly on earth.

让柔情从你的眼中涌出,让阳光温暖地凝视大地。