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科学
Science
The good thing about science is that it's true whether or not you believe in it.
科学的好处是不管你相信与否，它都是真的。
If we knew what it was we were doing, it would not be called research, would it?
如果我们知道我们在做什么，就不会被称为研究，对吗?
Sound science must be a basis to governing our trade relations around the globe.
健全的科学必须成为管理我们全球贸易关系的基础。
The Theory of Evolution has more holes in it than a dam made out of Swiss cheese.
进化论的漏洞比瑞士奶酪做的水坝还多。
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。
The great tragedy of science – the slaying of a beautiful theory by an ugly fact.
科学的大悲剧——一个美丽的理论被一个丑陋的事实所毁灭。
Without a constant misuse of language there cannot be any discovery, any progress.
没有对语言的不断滥用，就不会有任何发现和进步。
Not only is the Universe stranger than we think, it is stranger than we can think.
宇宙不仅比我们想象的要陌生，而且比我们能想象到的还要陌生。
I regard the afterlife to be a fairy story for people that are afraid of the dark.
我认为来世对于那些害怕黑暗的人来说是一个童话故事。
If you wish to make an apple pie from scratch, you must first invent the universe.
如果你想从零开始做一个苹果派，你必须首先创造宇宙。
If quantum mechanics hasn't profoundly shocked you, you haven't understood it yet.
如果量子力学还没有给你带来深刻的震撼，那么你还没有理解它。
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。
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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。
We are an impossibility in an impossible universe.
在一个不可能的宇宙中，我们是不可能的。
Learn from yesterday, live for today, hope for tomorrow. The important thing is not to stop questioning.
借鉴昨天，活在今天，憧憬明天。重要的是不要停止质疑。
We are a way for the cosmos to know itself.
我们是宇宙认识自身的一种方式。
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。
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。