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 aim of every artist is to arrest motion, which is life, by artificial means and hold it fixed so that a hundred years later, when a stranger looks at it, it moves again since it is life.

每一个艺术家的目标都是通过人为的手段来捕捉运动,也就是生命,并把它固定住,这样一百年后,当一个陌生人看到它时,它又动了起来,因为这就是生命。

If I miss coaching that much, I could go to some little school where they didn't recruit, where all the kids wanted to go. I believe I could find somewhere to coach.

如果我那么怀念教练生涯,我可以去一些他们不招人的小学校,所有的孩子都想去那里。我相信我能找到一个教练的地方。

I played a heap of snow in a school play. I was under a sheet, and crawled out when spring came. I often say I'll never reach the same artistic level again.

我在学校的话剧里演了一堆雪。我盖着被单,春天来了,我爬了出来。我常说我再也不能达到同样的艺术水平了。

Many investigators feel uneasy stating in public that the origin of life is a mystery, even though behind closed doors they admit they are baffled.

许多调查人员在公开场合宣称生命的起源是个谜,感到不安,尽管他们私下承认自己感到困惑。

We see that science is eminently perfectible, and that each theory has constantly to give way to a fresh one.

我们看到科学是非常完美的,每一个理论都必须不断地让位给一个新的理论。

A sculptor is a person who is interested in the shape of things, a poet in words, a musician by sounds.

雕刻家是对事物的形状感兴趣的人,是文字中的诗人,是声音中的音乐家。

Adding manpower to a late software project makes it later.

在一个较晚的软件项目中添加人力会使它更晚。

I like people who try to do big things.

我喜欢那些想做大事的人。