We have not given science too big a place in our education, but we have made a perilous mistake in giving it too great a preponderance in method in every other branch of study.

  • -- Woodrow Wilson 伍德罗威尔逊

我们并没有在教育中给予科学太大的地位,但是我们犯了一个危险的错误,在方法上给了科学在其他学科中太大的优势。

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The older the layers, the more each of them is uniform over a great extent; the newer the layers, the more they are limited and subject to variation within small distances.

年龄越大,各层在很大程度上越均匀;这些层越新,它们受到的限制就越多,在很小的距离内就会发生变化。

Science isn't just about blowing things up. Rather it's about blowing things up and knowing how you did it.

科学不仅仅是把事情搞砸。而是把事情搞砸,然后知道你是怎么做的。

But a science is exact to the extent that its method measures up to and is adequate to its object.

但是,一门科学的精确程度取决于它的方法是否能达到它的目的,是否足以达到它的目的。

A society grows great when old men plant trees whose shade they know they shall never sit in.

当老人种下他们知道自己永远不会坐在树荫下的树时,一个社会就会变得伟大。