A COLLECTION OF GOOD WORDS
科学
Science
Energy is liberated matter, matter is energy waiting to happen.
能量是被释放的物质，物质是等待发生的能量。
The world is magic. Science is but an insipid style of sorcery.
世界是神奇的。科学不过是一种平淡无奇的魔法。
There are an infinite number of boring things to do in science.
在科学上有无数无聊的事情要做。
Truth in science is always determined from observational facts.
科学中的真理总是由观察事实来决定的。
Science makes no pretension to eternal truth or absolute truth.
科学不自命永恒的真理或绝对的真理。
The true sign of intelligence is not knowledge but imagination.
智慧的真正标志不是知识，而是想象力。
Highly organized research is guaranteed to produce nothing new.
组织严密的研究保证不会产生任何新东西。
By denying scientific principles, one may maintain any paradox.
通过否定科学原理，人们可以维持任何悖论。
Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to compute it.
不记得过去的人注定要计算过去。
Witchcraft to the ignorant, .... Simple science to the learned.
向无知的人施巫术……对有学问的人来说，这是一门简单的科学。
Nothing makes a woman beauty than her belief that she is beauty.
没有什么比相信自己是美丽的女人更美丽的了。
Science has made us gods even before we are worthy of being men.
科学甚至在我们配得上人类之前就把我们变成了神。
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In questions of science, the authority of a thousand is not worth the humble reasoning of a single individual.
在科学问题上，一千人的权威并不值得一个人的简单推理。
A good scientist is a person with original ideas. A good engineer is a person who makes a design that works with as few original ideas as possible. There are no prima donnas in engineering.
一个好的科学家是有独到见解的人。一个好的工程师是一个人，他所做的设计尽量少用原创的想法。工程界没有杰出的学者。
Every great advance in science has issued from a new audacity of the imagination.
科学上的每一个重大进步都来自于一种新的大胆的想象。
No amount of experimentation can ever prove me right; a single experiment can prove me wrong.
再多的实验也无法证明我是对的;一个实验就能证明我错了。
Wisdom is not a product of schooling but of the lifelong attempt to acquire it.
智慧不是学校教育的产物，而是终身追求的结果。
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.
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。