Science, which is not so attached to 'truth' as it once was, ut more to immediate 'effectiveness', is now drifting towards a decline, it's civic fall from grace.

  • -- Paul Virilio 维希留

科学不再像过去那样依附于“真理”,而是更倾向于直接的“有效性”,现在正滑向衰落,这是公民的失宠。

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I don't think one can accurately measure the historical effectiveness of a poem; but one does know, of course, that books influence individuals; and individuals, although they are part of large economic and social processes, influence history. Every mass is after all made up of millions of individuals.

我不认为人们可以准确地衡量一首诗的历史效力;但人们当然知道,书籍影响着个人;个人,虽然他们是大的经济和社会进程的一部分,影响着历史。每个群体毕竟是由数百万个体组成的。

Flying off the handle sometimes causes hammers and humans to lose their heads, as well as their effectiveness.

失控有时会导致锤子和人类失去理智,失去效率。

It's time to let science and medicine, not politics and rhetoric, lead us to good, sound policy.

是时候让科学和医学,而不是政治和花言巧语,引导我们制定好的、健全的政策了。

The best place to start the evolution of the vertebrates is the imagination.

想象是脊椎动物进化的最佳起点。