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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When the generation after me started getting on the cut, a lot of them would call me over to hang out or go jam and scratch and they were always separate from each other.

当我之后的那一代人开始剪头发的时候,他们中的很多人会打电话给我,叫我出去玩,或者去果酱和挠痒痒,他们总是彼此分开。

Men of science offer us health, an obvious benefit; it is only afterwards that we discover that by health, they mean bodily slavery and spiritual tedium.

科学家给我们带来健康,这是显而易见的好处;只有在这之后,我们才发现健康意味着身体的奴役和精神的单调。

A reader ought to be able to hold it and become familiar with its organized contents and make it a mind's manageable companion.

读者应该能够抓住它,熟悉它的有组织的内容,使它成为一个易于管理的伙伴。

Dogs get lost hundreds of times and no one ever notices it or sends an account of it to a scientific magazine.

狗狗们会迷路数百次,但从来没有人注意到它,也没有人把它的情况告诉科学杂志。

Science is a perception of the world around us. Science is a place where what you find in nature pleases you.

科学是对我们周围世界的一种感知。科学是你在大自然中所发现的东西能使你快乐的地方。

Scientific theory is a contrived foothold in the chaos of living phenomena.

科学理论是人为地立足于混沌的生活现象。

Tell me, Connie, is your mother still dead?

告诉我,康妮,你妈妈还死吗?

My generation is under-entertained.

我们这一代人缺乏娱乐。