The purpose of science is not to analyze or describe but to make useful models of the world. A model is useful if it allows us to get use out of it.

  • -- Edward de Bono 爱德华·德·波诺

科学的目的不是分析或描述世界,而是建立有用的世界模型。模型是有用的,如果它允许我们使用它。

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The whole purpose of writing a book is to be understood - if other people write about you, they try to guess why you did things, or they hear things from other people.

写一本书的全部目的就是要让人理解——如果别人写你,他们会试图猜测你为什么要这么做,或者他们从别人那里听到了什么。

Everyone has a different purpose in the world, and everyone's world differs in accordance with his purpose.

每个人在世界上都有不同的目的,每个人的世界都因他的目的而不同。

I think it was this curiosity about the natural world which awoke my early interest in science.

我想正是这种对自然世界的好奇心唤醒了我对科学的早期兴趣。

As our circle of knowledge expands, so does the circumference of darkness surrounding it.

当我们的知识之圈扩大时,围绕着它的黑暗的圆周也随之扩大。