What SF can do better than anything else is show us the range of our possible futures, and what we can do to realize the good ones and avoid the nasty ones.

  • -- Stanley Albert Schmidt 斯坦利·阿尔伯特·施密特

科幻小说比其他任何东西都能做得更好的是向我们展示我们可能的未来,以及我们能做些什么来实现好的未来,避免坏的未来。

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My point is that perceptual bias can affect nut jobs and scientists alike. If we hold too rigidly to what we think we know, we ignore or avoid evidence of anything that might change our mind.

我的观点是,感知偏见会影响坚果工作和科学家。如果我们过于拘泥于我们自认为知道的东西,我们就会忽视或避免任何可能改变我们想法的证据。

Our parents decided not to teach us Chinese. It was an era when they felt we would be better off if we didn't have that complication.

我们的父母决定不教我们中文。在那个时代,他们认为如果我们没有这种复杂性,我们会过得更好。

The Nobel is a ticket to one's own funeral. No one has ever done anything after he got it.

诺贝尔奖是一张自己葬礼的入场券。没有人在得到它之后做过任何事情。

If we are to better the future we must disturb the present.

如果我们想让未来变得更好,我们就必须扰乱现在。