An important scientific innovation rarely makes its way by gradually winning over and converting its opponents: What does happen is that the opponents gradually die out.

  • -- Max Planck 马克斯·普朗克

一项重要的科学创新很少能通过逐渐赢得竞争对手的支持并使其转化为现实:真正发生的是竞争对手逐渐消亡。

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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。

If it didn't happen in your life before, then you're not paying attention you don't think it's possible. But almost all important events never happen in your life before.

如果这在你的生活中没有发生过,那么你就没有集中注意力,你认为这是不可能的。但几乎所有重要的事情在你的生活中从未发生过。

There's a big difference between wanting to work and having to work. And I had to learn that the hard way. Now money is very important to me, because I ain't got it.

想工作和必须工作之间有很大的区别。我必须通过艰苦的方式来学习。现在钱对我来说很重要,因为我没有钱。

The restriction of studies of human intellect and character to studies of conscious states was not without influence on a scientific studies of animal psychology.

把对人类智力和性格的研究局限于对意识状态的研究,对动物心理学的科学研究不无影响。

I think it's important to have had at least a few years of obscurity, where people treat you like everybody else.

我认为至少有几年的默默无闻是很重要的,人们对待你就像对待其他人一样。

An economist is an expert who will know tomorrow why the things he predicted yesterday didn't happen today.

经济学家是专家,他明天就会知道为什么他昨天预测的事情今天没有发生。