A COLLECTION OF GOOD WORDS
科学
Science
He who hears the rippling of rivers in these degenerate days will not utterly despair.
在这堕落的日子里，听见河水潺潺声的人，不会完全绝望。
The capacity to be puzzled is the premise of all creation, be it in art or in science.
无论是在艺术领域还是在科学领域，困惑的能力是一切创造的前提。
If we all did the things we are capable of doing we would literally astound ourselves.
如果我们都做了我们能做的事情，我们会让自己大吃一惊。
Human Nature is the only science of man; and yet has been hitherto the most neglected.
人性是人类唯一的科学;但迄今为止却被最忽视。
A lot of the cosmologists and astrophysicists clearly had been reading science fiction.
很多宇宙学家和天体物理学家显然都读过科幻小说。
Faced with an exciting question, science tended to provide the dullest possible answer.
面对一个令人兴奋的问题，科学往往会给出最无趣的答案。
Science has proof without any certainty. Creationists have certainty without any proof.
科学有不确定的证据。神创论者没有任何证据就有确定性。
It wasn't long after the discovery of modern anesthesia that people began to die of it.
现代麻醉发明后不久，人们就开始死于麻醉。
Energy cannot be created or destroyed, it can only be changed from one form to another.
能量不能被创造或毁灭，它只能从一种形式变成另一种形式。
I think that only daring speculation can lead us further and not accumulation of facts.
我认为只有大胆的猜测才能使我们走得更远，而不是积累事实。
They lived like monkeys still, while their new god powers lay around them in the weeds.
他们仍然像猴子一样生活，而他们的新神的力量就在他们周围的杂草里。
We are not born into the world. We are born into something that we make into the world.
我们不是生在世上的。我们生来就是为了创造世界。
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Looking back, video game design seems a natural fit, although there was no such thing when I was growing up. I built a Tic-Tac-Toe playing machine in my teens which went up in smoke on the night it was scheduled to go to a science fair.
回顾过去，电子游戏设计似乎是一种自然的契合，尽管在我的成长过程中并没有这样的东西。我在十几岁的时候造了一个井字游戏机，计划去参加一个科学展览的那天晚上，它就冒烟了。
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。
A celibate clergy is an especially good idea, because it tends to suppress any hereditary propensity toward fanaticism.
独身神职人员是一个特别好的主意，因为它倾向于抑制任何遗传的狂热倾向。
I was a science fiction junkie for a long time.
我很长一段时间都是科幻小说迷。
If I wasn't doing this, I'd be in school studying political science or socioeconomic something. I love visiting different cultures and finding out how they make up a society.
如果我不这样做，我就会在学校里学习政治学或社会经济学之类的东西。我喜欢参观不同的文化，了解他们是如何组成一个社会的。
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。