A COLLECTION OF GOOD WORDS
科学
Science
Metaphysics means nothing but an unusually obstinate effort to think clearly.
形而上学不过是一种异常顽固的努力，目的是要清晰地思考。
The destruction of this universe would have no significance on a cosmic scale.
这个宇宙的毁灭在宇宙范围内没有任何意义。
All the biblical miracles will at last disappear with the progress of science.
所有的圣经奇迹将最终随着科学的进步而消失。
When the state cannot raise people as scientists, it raises people as martyrs.
当国家不能把人民培养成科学家时，它就把人民培养成烈士。
To establish that a rule is likely to be true, one must try to prove it false.
要确定一条规则可能是正确的，就必须设法证明它是错误的。
Scientific fashions last longer than women's fashions but not as long as men's.
科学时装比女性时装经久不衰，但却不如男性时装持久。
We are stuck with technology when what we really want is just stuff that works.
当我们真正想要的只是有用的东西时，我们却被科技困住了。
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。
Holy Writ was intended to teach men how to go to Heaven not how the heavens go.
圣经的目的是教导人们如何去天堂，而不是天堂如何去。
A surgeon's intellect is inversely proportionate to the length of the incision.
外科医生的智力与切口的长度成反比。
I don't recall any interest in science in particular. It came later in college.
我不记得对科学有什么特别的兴趣。后来到了大学。
The classification of the constituents of a chaos, nothing less is here essayed.
对混沌的成分进行了分类，这里就不多说了。
KEEP EXPLORING
沿着这个主题，再读几句。
We are a way for the cosmos to know itself.
我们是宇宙认识自身的一种方式。
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。
Heard melodies are sweet, but those unheard are sweeter.
听过的旋律是甜美的，但听不到的更甜美。
Ignorance more frequently begets confidence than does knowledge: it is those who know little, and not those who know much, who so positively assert that this or that problem will never be solved by science.
无知比知识更容易带来自信:正是那些知道得很少的人，而不是那些知道得很多的人，如此积极地断言这个或那个问题永远不会被科学解决。
The measure of intelligence is the ability to change.
衡量智力的标准是改变的能力。
Life would be tragic if it weren't funny.
如果生活不有趣，那将是一场悲剧。