A COLLECTION OF GOOD WORDS
科学
Science
Science is built of facts the way a house is built of bricks; but an accumulation of facts is no more science than a pile of bricks is a house.
科学是由事实构成的，正如房子是用砖砌成的;但是，事实的积累并不是科学，就像一堆砖头不是一所房子一样。
I will argue that every scrap of biological diversity is priceless, to be learned and cherished, and never to be surrendered without a struggle.
我想说的是，生物多样性的每一个碎片都是无价的，值得学习和珍惜，不经斗争绝不能放弃。
The scientist does not study nature because it is useful; he studies it because he delights in it, and he delights in it because it is beautiful.
科学家研究自然并不是因为它有用;他研究它，因为他喜欢它，他喜欢它，因为它是美丽的。
A thinker sees his own actions as experiments and questions--as attempts to find out something. Success and failure are for him answers above all.
一个思考者把自己的行为看作是实验和问题——即试图发现一些东西。成功和失败是他最重要的答案。
So the universe is not quite as you thought it was. You'd better rearrange your beliefs, then. Because you certainly can't rearrange the universe.
所以宇宙并不像你想象的那样。 那么，你最好重新整理一下你的信念。因为你肯定不能重新排列宇宙。
Science might almost be redefined as the process of substituting unimportant questions which can be answered for important questions which cannot.
科学几乎可以被重新定义为这样一个过程:用可以回答的不重要的问题代替不能回答的重要问题。
Many investigators feel uneasy stating in public that the origin of life is a mystery, even though behind closed doors they admit they are baffled.
许多调查人员在公开场合宣称生命的起源是个谜，感到不安，尽管他们私下承认自己感到困惑。
From birth, man carries the weight of gravity on his shoulders. He is bolted to earth. But man has only to sink beneath the surface and he is free.
人类从出生起就肩负着地球引力的重任。他被拴在地上。但是人只要沉到水里，他就自由了。
No men who really think deeply about women retain a high opinion of them; men either despise women or they have never thought seriously about them.
真正深入思考女人的男人不会对她们有很高的评价;男人要么看不起女人，要么从来没有认真考虑过女人。
The purpose of science is not to analyze or describe but to make useful models of the world. A model is useful if it allows us to get use out of it.
科学的目的不是分析或描述世界，而是建立有用的世界模型。模型是有用的，如果它允许我们使用它。
A scientist can pretend that his work isn't himself, it's merely the impersonal truth. An artist can't hide behind the truth. He can't hide anywhere.
科学家可以假装他的工作不是他自己，这只是客观的事实。艺术家无法隐藏真相。他无处藏身。
It would be better for us to have some doubts in an honest pursuit of truth, than it would be for us to be certain about something that was not true.
对我们来说，在诚实地追求真理的过程中产生一些怀疑，要比我们对一些不真实的事情确信无疑要好得多。
KEEP EXPLORING
沿着这个主题，再读几句。
We are just an advanced breed of monkeys on a minor planet of a very average star. But we can understand the Universe. That makes us something very special.
我们只是在一颗普通恒星的小行星上生活的猴子的高级品种。但是我们可以理解宇宙。这让我们变得很特别。
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。
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。
The measure of intelligence is the ability to change.
衡量智力的标准是改变的能力。
Knowledge of what is does not open the door directly to what should be.
知道现状并不能直接打开通往未来的大门。
We are an impossibility in an impossible universe.
在一个不可能的宇宙中，我们是不可能的。