Blind faith, no matter how passionately expressed, will not suffice. Science for its part will test relentlessly every assumption about the human condition.

  • -- E. O. Wilson 威尔森

盲目的信仰,不管表达得多么热烈,都是不够的。科学本身将无情地检验关于人类状况的每一个假设。

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The human body has two ends on it: one to create with and one to sit on. Sometimes people get their ends reversed. When this happens they need a kick in the seat of the pants.

人体有两个末端:一个用来创造,另一个用来坐着。有时人们会适得其反。当这种情况发生时,他们需要从裤子的座位上踢一下。

I have to make sure that I make good choices and that if I put my name on it, it's a high-quality endeavor and that I have time to be a human being.

我必须确保我做出了正确的选择,如果我把我的名字写在上面,这是一个高质量的努力,我有时间成为一个人。

It is difficult to make our material condition better by the best law, but it is easy enough to ruin it by bad laws.

用最好的法律来改善我们的物质条件是困难的,但用坏的法律来破坏它却很容易。

Revere those things beyond science which really matter and about which it is so difficult to speak.

尊重那些超越科学的东西,那些真正重要的东西,那些难以启齿的东西。

The first condition of understanding a foreign country is to smell it.

了解一个外国的第一个条件是闻一闻。

I was interested in science before I even knew what science was.

在我知道科学是什么之前,我就对科学感兴趣了。