A COLLECTION OF GOOD WORDS
科学
Science
The progress of science is strewn, like an ancient desert trail, with the bleached skeleton of discarded theories which once seemed to possess eternal life.
科学的进步就像一条古老的沙漠小径，散落着被抛弃的理论的褪色骨架，而这些理论曾经似乎拥有永恒的生命。
Science, almost from its beginnings, has been truly international in character. National prejudices disappear completely in the scientist's search for truth.
科学几乎从一开始就具有真正的国际性。在这位科学家寻求真理的过程中，民族偏见完全消失了。
I was a catastrophe at Science and Games, but the good thing about Quaker schools is that they encourage you in those subjects for which you show an aptitude.
我在科学和游戏方面是个大灾难，但贵格会学校的好处是，他们鼓励你学习那些你表现出天赋的学科。
There are three stages in scientific discovery. First, people deny that it is true, then they deny that it is important; finally they credit the wrong person.
科学发现有三个阶段。首先，人们否认这是真的，然后他们否认这是重要的;最后，他们把功劳归于错误的人。
Gender consciousness has become involved in almost every intellectual field: history, literature, science, anthropology. There's been an extraordinary advance.
性别意识几乎涉及到每一个知识领域:历史、文学、科学、人类学。这是一个非凡的进步。
A universe that came from nothing in the big bang will disappear into nothing at the big crunch. Its glorious few zillion years of existence not even a memory.
一个来自大爆炸中的虚无的宇宙将在大爆炸时消失。它辉煌地存在了几百万年，甚至连一段记忆都没有。
If by some magic, autism had been eradicated from the face of the earth, then men would still be socializing in front of a wood fire at the entrance to a cave.
如果通过某种魔法，自闭症从地球表面被根除了，那么人类仍然会在洞穴入口处的篝火前进行社交活动。
Science is an integral part of culture. It's not this foreign thing, done by an arcane priesthood. It's one of the glories of the human intellectual tradition.
科学是文化不可分割的一部分。它不是由一个神秘的祭司来完成的，这不是一件陌生的事情。这是人类智力传统的荣耀之一。
Scientific discovery and scientific knowledge have been achieved only by those who have gone in pursuit of it without any practical purpose whatsoever in view.
科学发现和科学知识只有那些没有任何实际目的去追求的人才能取得。
If we long to believe that the stars rise and set for us, that we are the reason there is a Universe, does science do us a disservice in deflating our conceits?
如果我们渴望相信星星为我们升起和落下，相信我们是宇宙存在的原因，那么科学是否会让我们的自负受挫呢?
It is important that students bring a certain ragamuffin, barefoot irreverence to their studies; they are not here to worship what is known, but to question it.
重要的是，学生们要带着某种衣衫褴褛、光着脚、对学习不敬的态度;他们不是来敬拜所知道的，而是来质疑它。
Science is not a heartless pursuit of objective information. It is a creative human activity, its geniuses acting more as artists than as information processors.
科学不是对客观信息的无情追求。它是一种创造性的人类活动，它的天才更多地扮演艺术家的角色，而不是信息处理者。
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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。
Extinction is the rule. Survival is the exception.
灭绝是规律。生存是个例外。
Two things are infinite: the universe and human stupidity; and I'm not sure about the universe.
有两件事是无限的:宇宙和人类的愚蠢;我对宇宙也不是很确定。
I was a science fiction junkie for a long time.
我很长一段时间都是科幻小说迷。
There is one thing alone that stands the brunt of life throughout its course; a quiet conscience.
只有一件事在整个生命过程中首当其冲;一个安静的良心。
If you want to find the secrets of the universe, think in terms of energy, frequency and vibration.
如果你想发现宇宙的秘密，就从能量、频率和振动的角度来思考。