Scientists often have a naive faith that if only they could discover enough facts about a problem, these facts would somehow arrange themselves in a compelling and true solution.

  • -- Theodosius Dobzhansky 多布赞斯基

科学家们常常天真地认为,只要他们能发现一个问题的足够事实,这些事实就会以某种方式排列成一个令人信服的、真实的解决方案。

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There is not much that even the most socially responsible scientists can do as individuals, or even as a group, about the social consequences of their activities.

即使是最具社会责任感的科学家,作为个人,甚至作为一个群体,也无法就其活动的社会后果做出多少贡献。

One way we can enliven the imagination is to push it toward the illogical. We're not scientists. We don't always have to make the logical, reasonable leap.

我们激活想象力的一种方法是把它推向不合逻辑的方向。我们不是科学家。我们不必总是做出合乎逻辑的、合理的飞跃。

Faith may be encouraged by what has happened in the past, or what is thought to have happened in the past, but the only proof of it is in the future.

过去所发生的事,或者人们认为过去所发生的事,都可能鼓舞人们的信心,但唯一能证明这一点的是将来。

Take the first step in faith. You don't have to see the whole staircase, just take the first step.

在信心上迈出第一步。你不需要看到整个楼梯,只需要迈出第一步。