A COLLECTION OF GOOD WORDS
科学
Science
Science is the struggle to avoid self-delusions or at least not to appear too delusional to others.
科学就是努力避免自我妄想,或者至少不要让别人觉得你太过妄想。
We would be in a nasty position indeed if empirical science were the only kind of science possible.
如果经验科学是唯一可能的科学,我们将会处于一个非常糟糕的境地。
One of the advantages of science is that one's work, ultimately, is either replicated or it is not.
科学的优势之一是,一个人的工作最终要么被复制,要么没有。
The person who reads too much and uses his brain too little will fall into lazy habits of thinking.
读书太多而用脑太少的人会养成懒惰的思维习惯。
If you want to find the secrets of the universe, think in terms of energy, frequency and vibration.
如果你想发现宇宙的秘密,就从能量、频率和振动的角度来思考。
Science fiction writers put characters into a world with arbitrary rules and work out what happens.
科幻小说作家把人物置于一个有任意规则的世界里,然后计算出发生了什么。
Science literacy is a vaccine against the charlatans of the world that would exploit your ignorance.
科学素养是对抗世界上那些利用你无知的骗子的疫苗。
The aim of science is not to open the door to infinite wisdom, but to set a limit to infinite error.
科学的目的不是为无限的智慧打开大门,而是为无限的错误设限。
Modern science cannot explain why the laws of physics are exactly balanced for animal life to exist.
现代科学无法解释为什么物理定律与动物生命的存在是完全平衡的。
Equipped with his five senses, man explores the universe around him and calls the adventure Science.
人类用自己的五种感官探索周围的宇宙,称之为探险科学。
Science consists exactly of those forms of knowledge that can be verified and duplicated by anybody.
科学正是由那些任何人都可以验证和复制的知识构成的。
To surrender to ignorance and call it God has always been premature, and it remains premature today.
降服于无知,称其为上帝,一直是不成熟的,今天仍然是不成熟的。
KEEP EXPLORING
沿着这个主题,再读几句。
I was a science fiction junkie for a long time.
我很长一段时间都是科幻小说迷。
Let us embrace Science and the new technologies unfettered, for it is these which will liberate mankind from the myth of god, and free us from our age old fears, from disease, death and the sweat of labor.
让我们不受束缚地拥抱科学和新技术,因为正是这些将把人类从神的神话中解放出来,把我们从年老的恐惧、疾病、死亡和劳动的汗水中解放出来。
Two things are infinite: the universe and human stupidity; and I'm not sure about the universe.
有两件事是无限的:宇宙和人类的愚蠢;我对宇宙也不是很确定。
Time is an illusion.
时间是一种幻觉。
Wisdom is not a product of schooling but of the lifelong attempt to acquire it.
智慧不是学校教育的产物,而是终身追求的结果。
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!