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科学
Science
Nature as a whole was an exceptionally fine illustration of science.
自然作为一个整体是科学的一个非常好的例证。
Science doesn't tell us what we should do. It only tells us what is.
科学没有告诉我们应该做什么。它只告诉我们什么是。
Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic.
任何足够先进的技术都与魔法无异。
Although personally, I think cyberspace means the end of our species.
尽管就我个人而言,我认为网络空间意味着我们人类的终结。
Find out if you're still human, observe yourself from another planet.
看看你是不是人类,从另一个星球观察你自己。
God invented space so that not everything had to happen in Princeton.
上帝创造了空间,所以不是所有的事情都必须发生在普林斯顿。
Something but not nothing because nothing is an infinite possibility.
有但不是没有,因为没有是无限可能的。
A real scientist solves problems, not wails that they are unsolvable.
一个真正的科学家解决问题,而不是哭诉这些问题无法解决。
Science is a way of thinking much more than it is a body of knowledge.
科学是一种思维方式,而不是一种知识体系。
Problems in science are sometimes made easier by adding complications.
科学上的问题有时通过增加复杂性而变得简单。
Good judgment comes by way of experience, which comes of bad judgment.
好的判断来自经验,坏的判断来自经验。
The church saves sinners, but science seeks to stop their manufacture.
教会拯救罪人,但科学试图阻止他们的制造。
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Philosophy of science is about as useful to scientists as ornithology is to birds.
科学哲学对科学家的用处就像鸟类学对鸟类一样大。
People must understand that science is inherently neither a potential for good nor for evil. It is a potential to be harnessed by man to do his bidding.
人们必须明白,科学本质上既不是善的潜能,也不是恶的潜能。它是一种潜力,被人类利用,以做他的命令。
We are at the very beginning of time for the human race. It is not unreasonable that we grapple with problems. But there are tens of thousands of years in the future. Our responsibility is to do what we can, learn what we can, improve the solutions, and pass them on.
我们正处在人类历史的开端。我们努力解决问题并不是没有道理的。但在未来还有数万年。我们的责任是尽我们所能,学习我们所能,改进解决方案,并把它们传递下去。
All science is either physics or stamp collecting.
所有的科学不是物理就是集邮。
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。
Time is an illusion.
时间是一种幻觉。