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With the emergence of civilization, the rate of change shifted from hundreds of thousands of years to millennia. With the emergence of science as a way of knowing the universe, the rate of change shifted to centuries.

  • -- William Irwin Thompson 威廉·厄文·汤普森

随着文明的出现，变化的速度从几十万年变成了几千年。随着科学作为了解宇宙的一种方式的出现，变化的速度转移到了几个世纪。

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We are like ignorant shepherds living on a site where great civilizations once flourished. The shepherds play with the fragments that pop up to the surface, having no notion of the beautiful structures of which they were once a part.

我们就像无知的牧羊人，生活在曾经繁荣过伟大文明的地方。牧羊人玩弄着浮出水面的碎片，对它们曾经是其中一部分的美丽结构一无所知。

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Like many students, I found the drudgery of real experiments and the slowness of progress a complete shock, and at my low points I contemplated other alternative careers including study of the philosophy or sociology of science.

和许多学生一样，我发现真正实验的苦差事和进展的缓慢完全令人震惊，在我情绪低落的时候，我考虑过从事其他职业，包括学习哲学或科学社会学。

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We have not given science too big a place in our education, but we have made a perilous mistake in giving it too great a preponderance in method in every other branch of study.

我们并没有在教育中给予科学太大的地位，但是我们犯了一个危险的错误，在方法上给了科学在其他学科中太大的优势。

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Yet, history has shown that if material force can defeat some ideologies it can no longer obliterate a civilization without destabilizing the whole planet.

然而，历史表明，如果物质力量能够击败某些意识形态，它就不能在不破坏整个地球稳定的情况下消灭一个文明。

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