A COLLECTION OF GOOD WORDS
科学
Science
To worship a sacred mystery was just to worship your own ignorance.
崇拜一个神圣的神秘,就是崇拜你自己的无知。
Most achievements in science are to a certain degree group efforts.
大多数科学成就在一定程度上是集体努力的结果。
It is not clear that intelligence has any long-term survival value.
目前还不清楚智力是否具有长期生存价值。
Blood cannot be without dancing. There is no dancing without blood.
血液离不开舞蹈。没有血就没有舞蹈。
The only reason time exists is so that things do not happen at once.
时间存在的唯一原因是为了让事情不会同时发生。
One day, scientists will overtake Light and crash into the Darkness.
总有一天,科学家们将超越光明,撞向黑暗。
Every Saint has a Past and every Sinner has a future. Don't give up.
每个圣人都有过去,每个罪人都有未来。不要放弃。
Science, like art, is not a copy of nature but a re-creation of her.
科学和艺术一样,不是对自然的复制,而是对自然的再创造。
Science replaces private prejudice with public, verifiable evidence.
科学用公开的、可证实的证据取代了个人的偏见。
If I have seen further it is by standing on the shoulders of giants.
如果说我看得更远,那是因为我站在巨人的肩膀上。
The Bible shows the way to go to heaven, not the way the heavens go.
圣经显示的是通往天堂的路,而不是天堂的路。
We can make science personal, like a love story or your best friend.
我们可以让科学个人化,就像一个爱情故事或你最好的朋友。
KEEP EXPLORING
沿着这个主题,再读几句。
Life would be tragic if it weren't funny.
如果生活不有趣,那将是一场悲剧。
Nature and nature's laws lay hid in the night. God said, Let Newton be! and all was light!
大自然和大自然的法则隐藏在黑夜里。上帝说,让牛顿去吧!一切都是光明的!
Agency by agency, we frequently have lost a bit of ground, at least to inflation-but had it not been for the efforts we've made to educate people about the importance of science, technology and advanced education, those predictions very well might have come true.
一个机构接一个机构,我们经常失去一些阵地,至少是在通货膨胀面前——但是,如果不是我们努力教育人们科学、技术和高等教育的重要性,这些预测很可能已经成为现实。
We are just an advanced breed of monkeys on a minor planet of a very average star. But we can understand the Universe. That makes us something very special.
我们只是在一颗普通恒星的小行星上生活的猴子的高级品种。但是我们可以理解宇宙。这让我们变得很特别。
The universe we observe has precisely the properties we should expect if there is, at bottom, no design, no purpose, no evil, no good, nothing but blind, pitiless indifference.
我们所观察的宇宙,如果其本质上没有设计、没有目的、没有恶、没有善,只有盲目、无情的冷漠,那么它就具有我们所期望的特性。
There comes a time when the mind takes a higher plane of knowledge but can never prove how it got there.
总有那么一段时间,我们的头脑会获得更高层次的知识,但却永远无法证明它是如何做到这一点的。