A COLLECTION OF GOOD WORDS
科学
Science
There comes a time when the mind takes a higher plane of knowledge but can never prove how it got there.
总有那么一段时间,我们的头脑会获得更高层次的知识,但却永远无法证明它是如何做到这一点的。
Any faith that admires truth, that strives to know God, must be brave enough to accommodate the universe.
任何崇拜真理、努力认识上帝的信仰,都必须有足够的勇气容纳宇宙。
We long for permanence but everything in the known universe is transient. That’s a fact but one we fight.
我们渴望永恒,但已知宇宙中的一切都是短暂的。这是事实,但我们要抗争。
The is a secret for greater self-control, the science points to one thing: the power of paying attention.
科学指出,提高自控能力的秘诀是:集中注意力的力量。
I was always good at math and science, and I never realized that that was unusual or somehow undesirable.
我一直擅长数学和科学,我从来没有意识到这是不寻常的或不受欢迎的。
Cultural anthropology is more and more rapidly getting to realize itself as a strictly historical science.
文化人类学作为一门严格意义上的历史科学,正越来越迅速地实现其自身的价值。
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。
These mysteries about how we evolved should not distract us from the indisputable fact that we did evolve.
这些关于我们如何进化的谜团不应该转移我们对我们确实进化这一不争事实的注意力。
You cannot separate passion from pathology any more than you can separate a person's spirit from his body.
你不能把激情和病理分开,正如你不能把一个人的精神和他的身体分开一样。
Science Fiction will never run out of things to wonder about until the human race ceases to use its brain.
在人类停止使用大脑之前,科幻小说永远不会缺少值得思考的东西。
The main purpose of science is simplicity and as we understand more things, everything is becoming simpler.
科学的主要目的是简单,随着我们理解的东西越来越多,一切都变得越来越简单。
Any device in science is a window on to nature, and each new window contributes to the breadth of our view.
科学中的任何装置都是通向自然的一扇窗,而每一扇新窗都有助于开阔我们的视野。
KEEP EXPLORING
沿着这个主题,再读几句。
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。
Life would be tragic if it weren't funny.
如果生活不有趣,那将是一场悲剧。
Science is organized knowledge. Wisdom is organized life.
科学是有组织的知识。智慧是有组织的生活。
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。
But time is short, and science is infinite...
但时间是短暂的,科学是无限的……
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。