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科学
Science
Science, which is not so attached to 'truth' as it once was, ut more to immediate 'effectiveness', is now drifting towards a decline, it's civic fall from grace.
科学不再像过去那样依附于“真理”，而是更倾向于直接的“有效性”，现在正滑向衰落，这是公民的失宠。
My training in Science of Mind had begun with my mother. She took me to a different church every Sunday, and she encouraged me to question the minister afterward.
我的心理科学训练是从我母亲开始的。她每个星期天都带我去不同的教堂，并鼓励我在那之后向牧师提问。
Science cannot solve the ultimate mystery of nature. And that is because, in the last analysis, we ourselves are a part of the mystery that we are trying to solve.
科学不能解决自然的终极奥秘。这是因为，归根结底，我们自己就是我们试图解开的谜团的一部分。
If we suppose that many natural phenomena are in effect computations, the study of computer science can tell us about the kinds of natural phenomena that can occur.
如果我们假设许多自然现象实际上是计算，计算机科学的研究可以告诉我们可能发生的自然现象的种类。
I am tired of all this sort of thing called science here... We have spent millions in that sort of thing for the last few years, and it is time it should be stopped.
我厌倦了这里所谓的科学……在过去的几年里，我们在这类事情上花费了数百万美元，现在是时候停止了。
The materialistic paradigm of Western science has been a major obstacle for any objective evaluation of the data describing the events occurring at the time of death.
西方科学的唯物主义范式一直是客观评价描述死亡事件的数据的主要障碍。
The effort to understand the universe is one of the very few things that lifts human life a little above the level of farce, and gives it some of the grace of tragedy.
努力理解宇宙是为数不多的能让人类的生活稍稍超越闹剧水平，并赋予它一些悲剧的优雅的东西之一。
Many men of science and poets have in their own manner, by various ways and means, and aided by others, sought unceasingly to create a more tolerable world for everyone.
许多科学家和诗人以他们自己的方式，以各种方式和手段，并在他人的帮助下，不断地寻求为每个人创造一个更可容忍的世界。
Science tells us what we can know, but what we can know is little, and if we forget how much we cannot know we become insensitive to many things of very great importance.
科学告诉我们什么是我们能知道的，但我们能知道的很少，如果我们忘记了我们不能知道多少，我们就会对许多非常重要的事情变得麻木不仁。
Whenever a theory appears to you as the only possible one, take this as a sign that you have neither understood the theory nor the problem which it was intended to solve.
当一个理论在你看来是唯一可能的时候，把它当作一个信号，表明你既没有理解这个理论，也没有理解它要解决的问题。
Aristotle maintained that women have fewer teeth than men; although he was twice married, it never occurred to him to verify this statement by examining his wives' mouths.
亚里士多德认为女人的牙齿比男人少;虽然他结过两次婚，但他从来没有想过要通过检查妻子的嘴来证实这一说法。
Science goes from question to question; big questions, and little, tentative answers. The questions as they age grow ever broader, the answers are seen to be more limited.
科学从一个问题到另一个问题;大问题，小问题，试探性的答案。随着年龄的增长，这些问题的范围越来越广，答案似乎也越来越有限。
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If I wasn't doing this, I'd be in school studying political science or socioeconomic something. I love visiting different cultures and finding out how they make up a society.
如果我不这样做，我就会在学校里学习政治学或社会经济学之类的东西。我喜欢参观不同的文化，了解他们是如何组成一个社会的。
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。
I was a science fiction junkie for a long time.
我很长一段时间都是科幻小说迷。
The human spirit must prevail over technology.
人类精神必须战胜技术。
God does not play dice with the universe.
上帝不会和宇宙玩骰子。
A good scientist is a person with original ideas. A good engineer is a person who makes a design that works with as few original ideas as possible. There are no prima donnas in engineering.
一个好的科学家是有独到见解的人。一个好的工程师是一个人，他所做的设计尽量少用原创的想法。工程界没有杰出的学者。