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.

  • -- Sam Harris 山姆·哈里斯

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。

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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。

Existential depression has always annoyed me; it is one of the world's most pointless forms of suffering.

存在主义抑郁症一直困扰着我;这是世界上最无意义的痛苦之一。

It is a little thing to starve to death; it is a serious matter to lose one's virtue.

饿死是小事一桩;失去美德是一件很严重的事情。

I grew up in a scientific world, the son of a neurosurgeon.

我生长在一个科学的世界,一个神经外科医生的儿子。