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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Anybody who has been seriously engaged is scientific work of any kind realizes that over the entrance to the gates of the temple of science are written the words: 'Ye must have faith.'

任何认真从事科学工作的人都认识到,科学圣殿大门的入口处写着这样一句话:“你们必须有信心。”

Scientific reality is the modern human condition, and you can see that in the symbolic nature of my work.

科学现实是现代人类的状况,你可以从我作品的象征性本质中看到这一点。

You have to have some kind of power of observation, almost like a trained observer.

你必须有一定的观察力,就像一个训练有素的观察者。

Observation is a passive science, experimentation an active science.

观察是一门被动的科学,实验是一门主动的科学。