A COLLECTION OF GOOD WORDS
科学
Science
In conclusion, it appears that nothing can be more improving to a young naturalist, than a journey in distant countries.
总之，对一个年轻的博物学家来说，没有什么比到遥远的国家去旅行更有帮助的了。
Most people do not actually know how to think for themselves, and unfortunately that prevents them from even knowing it.
大多数人实际上并不知道如何为自己思考，不幸的是，这甚至阻止了他们去了解它。
Science by itself has no moral dimension. But it does seek to establish truth. And upon this truth morality can be built.
科学本身没有道德维度。但它确实寻求建立真理。道德就是建立在这个真理之上的。
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。
When people think about computer science, they imagine people with pocket protectors and thick glasses who code all night.
当人们想到计算机科学时，他们会联想到那些带着口袋保护器和厚眼镜、整夜编码的人。
It is not so much that I have confidence in scientists being right, but that I have so much in non scientists being wrong.
与其说我相信科学家是对的，不如说我相信非科学家是错的。
That's the whole problem with science. You've got a bunch of empiricists trying to describe things of unimaginable wonder.
这就是科学的全部问题。有一群经验主义者试图描述一些难以想象的奇迹。
Unfortunately, a lot of the concepts in the Bible are based on ancient mythology that doesn't fit the findings of science.
不幸的是，圣经中的很多概念都是建立在古代神话的基础上，并不符合科学的发现。
Nothing in life is to be feared, it is only to be understood. Now is the time to understand more, so that we may fear less.
生活中没有什么可怕的东西，只有需要理解的东西。现在是时候多了解一些了，这样我们就不会那么害怕了。
It is quite futile to argue that man is small compared to the cosmos; for man was always small compared to the nearest tree.
认为人类与宇宙相比渺小是毫无意义的;因为与最近的树相比，人类总是很小。
Whenever you hear the consensus of scientists agrees on something or other, reach for your wallet, because you're being had.
每当你听到科学家们就某件事达成共识时，就去掏你的钱包，因为你被骗了。
Science in the modern world has many uses; its chief use, however, is to provide long words to cover the errors of the rich.
科学在现代世界有许多用途;然而，它的主要用途是提供长篇大论来掩盖富人的错误。
KEEP EXPLORING
沿着这个主题，再读几句。
The slang for the rectum is "prison wallet".
直肠的俚语是“监狱钱包”。
The commonality between science and art is in trying to see profoundly - to develop strategies of seeing and showing.
科学与艺术的共同之处在于试图深刻地观察——发展观察和展示的策略。
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。
Life would be tragic if it weren't funny.
如果生活不有趣，那将是一场悲剧。
The universe we observe has precisely the properties we should expect if there is, at bottom, no design, no purpose, no evil, no good, nothing but blind, pitiless indifference.
我们所观察的宇宙，如果其本质上没有设计、没有目的、没有恶、没有善，只有盲目、无情的冷漠，那么它就具有我们所期望的特性。
To invent, you need a good imagination and a pile of junk.
要想发明，你需要好的想象力和一堆垃圾。