A COLLECTION OF GOOD WORDS
科学
Science
It's better to have nothing and have everything than if you have everything with nothing.
拥有一切而一无所有,总比一无所有要好。
If a theory purports to explain everything, then it is likely not explaining much at all.
如果一个理论声称能解释一切,那么它很可能根本解释不了多少。
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。
Nature and nature's laws lay hid in the night. God said, Let Newton be! and all was light!
大自然和大自然的法则隐藏在黑夜里。上帝说,让牛顿去吧!一切都是光明的!
If the brain was simple enough to be understood - we would be too simple to understand it!
如果大脑简单到可以被理解——我们就会简单到无法理解它!
In order to disprove the assertion that all crows are black, one white crow is sufficient.
为了反驳所有乌鸦都是黑的说法,一只白乌鸦就足够了。
Science is not only compatible with spirituality; it is a profound source of spirituality.
科学不仅与灵性相容;它是灵性的一个深刻源泉。
Instead of reality being passively recorded by the brain, it is actively constructed by it.
现实不是由大脑被动地记录下来的,而是由大脑主动地构建起来的。
We keep, in science, getting a more and more sophisticated view of our essential ignorance.
在科学上,我们对自己本质上的无知有一个越来越复杂的认识。
Dream is not that which you see while sleeping it is something that does not let you sleep.
梦不是你睡觉时看到的东西,而是让你无法入睡的东西。
I believe in evolution in the sense that a short-tempered man is the successor of a crybaby.
我相信进化,因为一个脾气暴躁的人是爱哭鬼的后代。
An expert is a person who has made all the mistakes that can be made in a very narrow field.
专家就是在一个非常狭窄的领域里犯过所有可能犯的错误的人。
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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。
We have also arranged things so that almost no one understands science and technology. This is a prescription for disaster. We might get away with it for a while, but sooner or later this combustible mixture of ignorance and power is going to blow up in our faces.
我们还把事情安排得几乎没有人了解科学和技术。这是灾难的处方。我们可能会侥幸逃脱一段时间,但这种无知和权力的可燃混合物迟早会在我们的脸上爆炸。
The true sign of intelligence is not knowledge but imagination.
智慧的真正标志不是知识,而是想象力。
The saddest aspect of life right now is that science gathers knowledge faster than society gathers wisdom.
现在生活中最悲哀的一点是,科学收集知识的速度比社会收集智慧的速度还要快。
Time is an illusion.
时间是一种幻觉。
A new scientific truth does not triumph by convincing its opponents and making them see the light, but rather because its opponents eventually die, and a new generation grows up that is familiar with it.
一个新的科学真理不是通过说服它的对手并让他们看到光明而取得胜利,而是因为它的对手最终会消亡,而熟悉它的新一代会成长起来。