If we long to believe that the stars rise and set for us, that we are the reason there is a Universe, does science do us a disservice in deflating our conceits?

  • -- Carl Sagan 卡尔·萨根

如果我们渴望相信星星为我们升起和落下,相信我们是宇宙存在的原因,那么科学是否会让我们的自负受挫呢?

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Science goes from question to question; big questions, and little, tentative answers. The questions as they age grow ever broader, the answers are seen to be more limited.

科学从一个问题到另一个问题;大问题,小问题,试探性的答案。随着年龄的增长,这些问题的范围越来越广,答案似乎也越来越有限。

Science cannot resolve moral conflicts, but it can help to more accurately frame the debates about those conflicts.

科学不能解决道德冲突,但它可以帮助更准确地构建关于这些冲突的辩论框架。

A nation that can't control its energy sources can't control its future.

一个不能控制能源的国家也不能控制它的未来。

I was dyslexic, so I was put in the silly class at school.

我有诵读困难症,所以我被分到学校的一个傻班。