The ordinary scientific man is strictly a sentimentalist. He is a sentimentalist in this essential sense, that he is soaked and swept away by mere associations.

  • -- G. K. Chesterton 特顿

一般的科学家严格来说是个感情用事的人。他是一个多愁善感的人,从这个本质上说,他只是被一些简单的联想浸透了,并被冲走了。

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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.

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。

A lot of scientists act on their beliefs and so do things that look crazy to the rest of us.

很多科学家都按照自己的信念行事,所以他们做的事情在我们其他人看来很疯狂。