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科学
Science
Maybe knowledge is as fundamental, or even more fundamental than [material] reality.
也许知识是基本的,甚至比物质现实更基本。
Bad times have a scientific value. These are occasions a good learner would not miss.
糟糕的时期有科学价值。这些场合是一个好的学习者不会错过的。
The time has come when advertising in some hands has reached the status of a science.
广告在某些人手中已达到科学地位的时候到了。
Man moves in a world that is nothing more or less than his consciousness objectified.
人在一个世界里活动,这个世界只不过是他的意识被物化了。
It's very strange writing science fiction in a world that moves as fast as ours does.
在一个和我们一样快的世界里写科幻小说是很奇怪的。
Ideas that require people to reorganize their picture of the world provoke hostility.
那些要求人们重新组织自己对世界的看法会引发敌意。
All science is static in the sense that it describes the unchanging aspects of things.
所有的科学都是静态的,因为它描述了事物不变的方面。
Not only is the universe stranger than we imagine, it is stranger than we can imagine.
宇宙不仅比我们想象的要陌生,而且比我们想象的还要陌生。
There were mysterious questions, but a mysterious answer was a contradiction in terms.
有一些神秘的问题,但神秘的答案在措辞上是自相矛盾的。
It is interesting to note how many of the great scientific discoveries begin as myths.
有趣的是,许多伟大的科学发现都是从神话开始的。
What will we be doing, when everything that can be done, can be done better by robots?
当所有能做的事情,都能被机器人做得更好时,我们将在做什么?
All we know of the Missing Link is that he is missing - and he won't be missed either.
我们所知道的缺失环节是,他正在缺失,而且他也不会被忽视。
KEEP EXPLORING
沿着这个主题,再读几句。
God does not play dice with the universe.
上帝不会和宇宙玩骰子。
The gift of fantasy has meant more to me than my talent for absorbing positive knowledge.
对我来说,幻想的天赋比我吸收积极知识的天赋更重要。
Extinction is the rule. Survival is the exception.
灭绝是规律。生存是个例外。
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。
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。
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。