We may take it to be the accepted idea that the Mosaic books were not handed down to us for our instruction in scientific knowledge, and that it is our duty to ground our scientific beliefs upon observation and inference, unmixed with considerations of a different order.

-- Asa Gray ASA灰色

我们可以接受这样一种观点，即摩西书并不是为了传授我们科学知识而流传下来的，我们有责任把我们的科学信念建立在观察和推理的基础上，不掺杂其他顺序的考虑。

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The credit which the apparent conformity with recognized scientific standards can gain for seemingly simple but false theories may, as the present instance shows, have grave consequences.

正如目前的例子所表明的那样，表面上符合公认的科学标准的人可以从看似简单而错误的理论中获得荣誉，这可能会产生严重的后果。

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Distinguishing the signal from the noise requires both scientific knowledge and self-knowledge.

区分信号和噪声需要科学知识和自我知识。

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Reason, observation, and experience; the holy trinity of science.

理性、观察和经验;科学的三位一体。

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