A COLLECTION OF GOOD WORDS
科学
Science
Primitive life is very common and intelligent life is fairly rare. Some would say it has yet to occur on Earth.
原始生命非常普遍，而智慧生命则相当罕见。有些人会说，它还没有发生在地球上。
Most of us think of ourselves as thinking creatures that feel, but we are actually feeling creatures that think.
我们大多数人认为自己是会思考的有感觉的生物，但实际上我们是会思考的有感觉的生物。
In some sense, gravity does not exist; what moves the planets and the stars is the distortion of space and time.
在某种意义上，引力并不存在;推动行星和恒星运动的是空间和时间的扭曲。
The command of our language is crucial to focusing our thoughts and communicating them with precision to others.
掌握我们的语言对于集中我们的思想并准确地与他人交流是至关重要的。
Science is a sharp eye when it comes to the tools and approaches and be blind when it comes to values and goals.
当涉及到工具和方法时，科学是一只敏锐的眼睛，当涉及到价值观和目标时，科学是一只盲目的眼睛。
Every mystery ever solved had been a puzzle from the dawn of the human species right up until someone solved it.
从人类诞生之初，直到有人揭开谜底，每一个谜题都是一个谜。
Science is a first-rate piece of furniture for a man's upper chamber, if he has common sense on the ground floor.
如果一个人在底层有常识的话，那么对于他的上层社会来说，科学是一件第一流的家具。
Science of happiness lies in our understanding. The secrets of happiness lie in our capacity to expand our heart.
幸福的科学在于我们的理解。幸福的秘密在于我们心胸的开阔。
There are no forbidden questions in science, no matters too sensitive or delicate to be probed, no sacred truths.
科学中没有禁忌的问题，没有敏感或微妙到无法探究的问题，没有神圣的真理。
Science fiction films are not about science. They are about disaster, which is one of the oldest subjects of art.
科幻电影与科学无关。它们是关于灾难的，这是最古老的艺术主题之一。
I have made a ceaseless effort not to ridicule, not to bewail, not to scorn human actions, but to understand them
我不断地努力，不去嘲笑，不去哭泣，不去蔑视人类的行为，而是去理解它们
The historian of science may be tempted to exclaim that when paradigms change, the world itself changes with them.
科学史学家可能会忍不住惊呼，当范式发生变化时，世界本身也随之发生变化。
KEEP EXPLORING
沿着这个主题，再读几句。
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。
If we all did the things we are capable of doing we would literally astound ourselves.
如果我们都做了我们能做的事情，我们会让自己大吃一惊。
A celibate clergy is an especially good idea, because it tends to suppress any hereditary propensity toward fanaticism.
独身神职人员是一个特别好的主意，因为它倾向于抑制任何遗传的狂热倾向。
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。
Ignorance more frequently begets confidence than does knowledge: it is those who know little, and not those who know much, who so positively assert that this or that problem will never be solved by science.
无知比知识更容易带来自信:正是那些知道得很少的人，而不是那些知道得很多的人，如此积极地断言这个或那个问题永远不会被科学解决。
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。