We have also arranged things so that almost no one understands science and technology. This is a prescription for disaster. We might get away with it for a while, but sooner or later this combustible mixture of ignorance and power is going to blow up in our faces.

  • -- Carl Sagan 卡尔·萨根

我们还把事情安排得几乎没有人了解科学和技术。这是灾难的处方。我们可能会侥幸逃脱一段时间,但这种无知和权力的可燃混合物迟早会在我们的脸上爆炸。

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The materialistic paradigm of Western science has been a major obstacle for any objective evaluation of the data describing the events occurring at the time of death.

西方科学的唯物主义范式一直是客观评价描述死亡事件的数据的主要障碍。

There is always some specific moment when we become aware that our youth is gone; but, years after, we know it was much later.

总有某个特定的时刻,我们会意识到自己的青春已经逝去;但是,多年以后,我们知道那是很久以后的事了。

There's certain things I try to avoid, as an actress, just to keep my world from being as narrow as it could be.

作为一名演员,我尽量避免做某些事情,只是为了不让我的世界变得尽可能狭窄。

The present is not an instant shared by all space, but an event, i.e. an instant at a place in space.

现在不是所有空间共享的瞬间,而是一个事件,即空间中某个地方的瞬间。

We all grow into the beautiful person that we’re supposed to be - some earlier, some later.

我们都成长为我们应该成为的那个美丽的人——有些早,有些晚。

I think that only daring speculation can lead us further and not accumulation of facts.

我认为只有大胆的猜测才能使我们走得更远,而不是积累事实。

Silence is the element in which great things fashion themselves together.

沉默是伟大的事物组合在一起的元素。

Kids flourish if we get them to school every day.

如果我们每天让孩子们上学,他们就会茁壮成长。