A COLLECTION OF GOOD WORDS
科学
Science
Science is what we understand well enough to explain to a computer. Art is everything else we do.
科学是我们能够很好地理解并向计算机解释的东西。艺术就是我们所做的一切。
Science is the best idea humans have ever had. The more people who embrace that idea, the better.
科学是人类有史以来最好的想法。接受这个想法的人越多越好。
In science, the credit goes to the man who convinces the world, not to whom the idea first occurs.
在科学上，功劳归于使世界信服的人，而不是首先想到这个主意的人。
The scientist is not a person who gives the right answers, he is one who asks the right questions.
科学家不是一个给出正确答案的人，他是一个提出正确问题的人。
To some physicists chaos is a science of process rather than state, of becoming rather than being.
对一些物理学家来说，混沌是一门关于过程而不是状态的科学，是关于成为而不是存在的科学。
This coupling together of science with international peace, is, I think, particularly significant.
我认为，科学与国际和平的结合具有特别重要的意义。
The atoms of the earth are formed inside of stars. Nothing really dies, everything is transformed.
地球的原子是在恒星内部形成的。没有什么会真正死去，一切都被改变了。
But a science is exact to the extent that its method measures up to and is adequate to its object.
但是，一门科学的精确程度取决于它的方法是否能达到它的目的，是否足以达到它的目的。
Gravity explains the motions of the planets, but it cannot explain who sets the planets in motion.
引力能解释行星的运动，但不能解释是谁使行星运动的。
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。
Unfortunately the global warming hysteria, as I see it, is driven by politics more than by science.
不幸的是，在我看来，全球变暖的歇斯底里是由政治而非科学所驱动的。
Revere those things beyond science which really matter and about which it is so difficult to speak.
尊重那些超越科学的东西，那些真正重要的东西，那些难以启齿的东西。
KEEP EXPLORING
沿着这个主题，再读几句。
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。
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。
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。
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。
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。