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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A fool's brain digests philosophy into folly, science into superstition, and art into pedantry. Hence University education.

傻瓜的头脑把哲学理解成愚蠢,把科学理解成迷信,把艺术理解成迂腐。因此大学教育。

This coupling together of science with international peace, is, I think, particularly significant.

我认为,科学与国际和平的结合具有特别重要的意义。

For me the purest and truest art in the world is science fiction.

对我来说,世界上最纯粹、最真实的艺术是科幻小说。

I was never very happy at school.

我在学校从来都不是很快乐。