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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The saddest aspect of life right now is that science gathers knowledge faster than society gathers wisdom.

现在生活中最悲哀的一点是,科学收集知识的速度比社会收集智慧的速度还要快。

Psychology is the science of the intellects, characters and behavior of animals including man.

心理学是研究包括人类在内的动物的智力、性格和行为的科学。

Reason, observation, and experience; the holy trinity of science.

理性、观察和经验;科学的三位一体。

Science does not know its debt to imagination.

科学不知道它欠想象的债。