A COLLECTION OF GOOD WORDS
科学
Science
We know that energy can not be created nor destroyed but can be changed in it's form. If it can not be formed then it can not exist. We may not exist.
我们知道能量既不能被创造也不能被摧毁，但是能量的形式是可以改变的。如果它不能形成，那么它就不能存在。我们可能不存在。
It was just like a digital fixation with cards and math and science and then I started to look at images of great magicians from Houdini down the line.
这就像对卡片、数学和科学的数码痴迷，然后我开始看胡迪尼伟大魔术师的照片。
I have seen firsthand that agricultural science has enormous potential to increase the yields of small farmers and lift them out of hunger and poverty.
我亲眼看到，农业科学具有极大的潜力，可以提高小农的产量，使他们摆脱饥饿和贫困。
People must understand that science is inherently neither a potential for good nor for evil. It is a potential to be harnessed by man to do his bidding.
人们必须明白，科学本质上既不是善的潜能，也不是恶的潜能。它是一种潜力，被人类利用，以做他的命令。
Begin challenging your own assumptions. Your assumptions are your windows on the world. Scrub them off every once in awhile, or the light won't come in.
开始挑战你自己的假设。你的假设就是你观察世界的窗口。每隔一段时间把它们擦干净，否则光线就不会进来。
I spent my adult life as a scientist, and science is, essentially, the most successful approach we have to try and understand the vast mysteries around.
我作为一名科学家度过了我的成年生活，而科学，本质上，是我们必须尝试和理解周围巨大谜团的最成功的方法。
After all, what else is scientific enquiry of any sort other than a controlled version of banging one's head against the universe until something gives?
毕竟，除了用头撞击宇宙直到有东西发生外，任何形式的科学探索都是可控的。
The limit of man s knowledge in any subject possesses a high interest which is perhaps increased by its close neighbourhood to the realms of imagination.
人类对任何一门学科的知识的有限性都具有很高的兴趣，而这种兴趣的增加也许是因为它与想象的领域关系密切。
Look into your heart and ask yourself, what would you die for?" "I don't know. There’s really no reason for it, with modern science as advanced as it is.
扪心自问，你愿意为什么而死?”“我不知道。现代科学如此先进，真的没有理由这么做。
The first and most important reason for its elimination is the unquestioned fact that evolution is not a science; it is a hypothesis only, a speculation.
其消失的第一个也是最重要的原因是一个毋庸置疑的事实:进化不是一门科学;这只是一种假设，一种推测。
Emotional states are fairly quick bursts of neuronal gossip. Traits, on the other hand, are more like the neuronal equivalent of committed relationships.
情绪状态是神经元间迅速爆发的闲言碎语。另一方面，性格特征更像是神经元上的承诺关系。
Men of science offer us health, an obvious benefit; it is only afterwards that we discover that by health, they mean bodily slavery and spiritual tedium.
科学家给我们带来健康，这是显而易见的好处;只有在这之后，我们才发现健康意味着身体的奴役和精神的单调。
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An expert is a person who has made all the mistakes that can be made in a very narrow field.
专家就是在一个非常狭窄的领域里犯过所有可能犯的错误的人。
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。
Science is built up of facts, as a house is with stones. But a collection of facts is no more a science than a heap of stones is a house.
科学是建立在事实之上的，正如房子是用石头砌成的一样。但是收集事实并不是一门科学，正如一堆石头并不是一所房子一样。
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。
The good thing about science is that it's true whether or not you believe in it.
科学的好处是不管你相信与否，它都是真的。
Life would be tragic if it weren't funny.
如果生活不有趣，那将是一场悲剧。