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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.

  • -- Max Planck 马克斯·普朗克

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。

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How is it that, in the face of overwhelming scientific evidence, there are still some who would deny the dangers of climate change? Not surprisingly, the loudest voices are not scientific, and it is remarkable how many economists, lawyers, journalists and politicians set themselves up as experts on the science.

为什么，面对压倒性的科学证据，仍然有一些人会否认气候变化的危险?毫不奇怪，最响亮的声音并不科学，而且值得注意的是，有多少经济学家、律师、记者和政治家自称是科学专家。

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The plain man is familiar with blindness and deafness, and knows from his everyday experience that the look of things is influenced by his senses; but it never occurs to him to regard the whole world as the creation of his senses.

平凡人对盲、聋很熟悉，从他的日常经验中知道，事物的外观是受他的感官影响的;但是他从来没有想过把整个世界看作是他感官的创造。

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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.

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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Learn about the world, the way it works, any kind of science and anthropology, it's really an interesting place we live in. Evolution is a really fantastic idea, even more than the idea of God I think.

了解这个世界，了解它的运作方式，了解任何科学和人类学，这是我们生活的一个非常有趣的地方。进化是一个非常奇妙的想法，甚至比上帝的想法更奇妙。

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What affects men sharply about a foreign nation is not so much finding or not finding familiar things; it is rather not finding them in the familiar place.

对一个外国的人影响最大的不是找到或没有找到熟悉的东西;而是在熟悉的地方找不到他们。

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Scientific understanding is often beautiful, a profoundly aesthetic experience which gives pleasure not unlike the reading of a great poem.

科学的理解往往是美丽的，是一种深刻的审美体验，它给人的乐趣就像读一首伟大的诗歌。

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Right, different generations come along, and discover the music, I think.

对，我想不同时代的人来到这里，发现了音乐。

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Being spokesman for a generation is the worst job I ever had.

作为一代人的代言人是我做过的最糟糕的工作。

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