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 final outcome cannot be known, either to the originator of a new theory, or to his colleagues and critics, who are bent on falsifying it. Thus, the scientific innovator may feel all the more lonely and uncertain.

最终的结果是无法知道的,无论是对一个新理论的创始人,还是对他的同事和批评者,谁决心要证伪它。因此,科学创新者可能会感到更加孤独和不确定。

I think most people see drawing as subservient to the subject, a sort of meditation, a studying, a searching observation, in my case, for its own sake.

我认为大多数人认为绘画是服从于主题的,一种沉思,一种研究,一种探索的观察,就我而言,是为了绘画本身。

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。

Not observation of a duty but liberty itself is the pledge that assures fidelity.

不是遵守义务,而是自由本身是保证忠诚的保证。