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 technical solution may be defined as one that requires a change only in the techniques of the natural sciences, demanding little or nothing in the way of change in human values or ideas of morality.

技术解决方案可以定义为只需要改变自然科学的技术,很少或根本不需要改变人类价值观或道德观念。

Anybody who has been seriously engaged is scientific work of any kind realizes that over the entrance to the gates of the temple of science are written the words: 'Ye must have faith.'

任何认真从事科学工作的人都认识到,科学圣殿大门的入口处写着这样一句话:“你们必须有信心。”

Nature and nature's laws lay hid in the night. God said, Let Newton be! and all was light!

大自然和大自然的法则隐藏在黑夜里。上帝说,让牛顿去吧!一切都是光明的!

I can't think of any relatives that ever went into science.

我想不出有哪个亲戚从事过科学研究。