A COLLECTION OF GOOD WORDS
科学
Science
I think the discomfort that some people feel in going to the monkey cages at the zoo is a warning sign.
我认为有些人去动物园的猴子笼子感到不舒服是一个警告信号。
I don't need to travel back in time to cause trouble. Seeing back through time finds me trouble enough!
我不需要回到过去制造麻烦。回首过去，我已经够麻烦的了!
Physics advances by accepting absurdities. Its history is one of unbelievable ideas proving to be true.
物理学是通过接受荒谬而进步的。它的历史是一个难以置信的想法被证明是真实的。
Any clock that can track this sideral schedule proves itself as perfect as God's magnificent clockwork.
任何时钟，只要能按照这个时间表来走，就能证明自己和上帝的宏伟时钟一样完美。
All science would be superfluous if the outward appearance and the essence of things directly coincided.
如果事物的外表和本质直接重合，一切科学都是多余的。
Go to the moon and back is not as challenging as it returns to the earth and have to deal with humanity.
登上月球并返回地球并不像返回地球并与人类打交道那么具有挑战性。
The task of science is to stake out the limits of the knowable, and to center consciousness within them.
科学的任务是划定可知事物的界限，并把意识集中在这些界限之内。
God promises neither good life nor good health but live your life the way it is planned by you and fate.
神既不应许好的生活，也不应许好的健康，只应许你按照自己和命运所安排的方式生活。
Once again confirms that there is no such thing as genetically pure classification into different races.
这再一次证实了，不存在基因上对不同种族的纯粹分类。
Those who are not shocked when they first come across quantum theory cannot possibly have understood it.
那些第一次接触量子理论时没有感到震惊的人不可能理解它。
Learn from yesterday, live for today, hope for tomorrow. The important thing is not to stop questioning.
借鉴昨天，活在今天，憧憬明天。重要的是不要停止质疑。
If history and science have taught us anything, it is that passion and desire are not the same as truth.
如果说历史和科学教会了我们什么的话，那就是激情和欲望并不等同于真理。
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Freedom of thought is best promoted by the gradual illumination of men’s minds which follows from the advance of science.
随着科学的进步，人们的思想逐渐得到启发，从而促进思想自由。
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。
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。
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。
Every great advance in science has issued from a new audacity of the imagination.
科学上的每一个重大进步都来自于一种新的大胆的想象。
We can't solve problems by using the same kind of thinking we used when we created them.
我们不能用创造问题时所用的思维方式来解决问题。