A COLLECTION OF GOOD WORDS
科学
Science
The accidental causes of science are only accidents relatively to the intelligence of a man.
科学的偶然原因只是相对于人的智力而言的偶然。
People blame science. Shit, man, people shouldn’t blame science. People should blame people.
人们责备科学。妈的，伙计，人们不应该责怪科学。人们应该责怪人们。
Science fiction is no more written for scientists that ghost stories are written for ghosts.
科幻小说不再是为科学家写的，鬼故事是为鬼写的。
The Earth was singing her revolution. She was calling her brave men and women to her defense.
大地在歌唱她的革命。她号召勇敢的男男女女为她辩护。
One of the penalties of an ecological education is that one lives alone in a world of wounds.
生态教育的惩罚之一就是一个人独自生活在一个充满创伤的世界里。
I don't really see science fiction as fiction. I can imagine colonies on Mars and everything.
我并不认为科幻小说是虚构的。我能想象火星上的殖民地和一切。
To know the history of science is to recognize the mortality of any claim to universal truth.
了解科学的历史，就等于认识到任何对普遍真理的主张都是必死无疑的。
Not explaining science seems to me perverse. When you're in love, you want to tell the world.
在我看来，不解释科学似乎有悖常理。当你恋爱时，你想告诉全世界。
Reality provides us with facts so romantic that imagination itself could add nothing to them.
现实为我们提供了如此浪漫的事实，想象本身并不能给它们添加任何东西。
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。
That's really what science is just trying to figure stuff out, and I like figuring stuff out.
这就是科学想要解决的问题，我喜欢解决问题。
The means and the results, the good and the bad, are within all of us who are aware and care.
方法和结果，好的和坏的，都在我们所有有意识和关心的人之内。
KEEP EXPLORING
沿着这个主题，再读几句。
We are just an advanced breed of monkeys on a minor planet of a very average star. But we can understand the Universe. That makes us something very special.
我们只是在一颗普通恒星的小行星上生活的猴子的高级品种。但是我们可以理解宇宙。这让我们变得很特别。
One sometimes finds what one is not looking for.
人有时会发现自己没有在寻找的东西。
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。
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 greatest shortcoming of the human race is our inability to understand the exponential function.
人类最大的缺点是我们无法理解指数函数。
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。