A COLLECTION OF GOOD WORDS
科学
Science
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。
We have not given science too big a place in our education, but we have made a perilous mistake in giving it too great a preponderance in method in every other branch of study.
我们并没有在教育中给予科学太大的地位，但是我们犯了一个危险的错误，在方法上给了科学在其他学科中太大的优势。
In those parts of the world where learning and science has prevailed, miracles have ceased; but in those parts of it as are barbarous and ignorant, miracles are still in vogue.
在世界上那些学习和科学占主导地位的地方，奇迹已经停止;但在那些野蛮无知的地方，奇迹仍然流行。
Perfect as the wing of a bird may be, it will never enable the bird to fly if unsupported by the air. Facts are the air of science. Without them a man of science can never rise.
虽然鸟的翅膀可能是完美的，但如果没有空气的支撑，它永远无法使鸟飞翔。事实是科学的空气。没有他们，一个科学家就永远不会进步。
When a distinguished but elderly scientist states that something is possible, he is almost certainly right. When he states that something is impossible, he is very probably wrong.
当一位杰出而年长的科学家宣称某事是可能的，他几乎肯定是对的。当他说某事是不可能的时候，他很可能是错的。
I don't plan to write another science book, but I don't plan not to. I do enjoy writing histories, and taking subjects that are generally dull and trying to make them interesting.
我不打算再写一本科学书，但我也不打算不写。我确实喜欢写历史，喜欢那些通常枯燥无味的科目，并试图让它们变得有趣。
I can see how it might be possible for a man to look down upon the earth and be an atheist, but I cannot conceive how a man could look up into the heavens and say there is no God.
我能想象一个人俯视大地而成为无神论者是怎么可能的，但我无法想象一个人仰望天空却说没有上帝。
Reading, after a certain age, diverts the mind too much from its creative pursuits. Any man who reads too much and uses his own brain too little falls into lazy habits of thinking.
过了一定的年龄，阅读会使人的思想过分偏离其创造性的追求。读书太多而用脑太少的人会养成懒惰的思维习惯。
Both of these branches of evolutionary science, are, in my opinion, in the closest causal connection; this arises from the reciprocal action of the laws of heredity and adaptation.
在我看来，进化科学的这两个分支，有着最密切的因果关系;这是遗传规律和适应规律相互作用的结果。
Honest pioneer work in the field of science has always been, and will continue to be, life's pilot. On all sides, life is surrounded by hostility. This puts us under an obligation.
科学领域诚实的先驱工作一直是，而且将继续是生活的领航者。生活的方方面面都充满了敌意。这使我们有义务。
The man of science, like the man of letters, is too apt to view mankind only in the abstract, selecting in his consideration only a single side of our complex and many-sided being.
科学家和文学家一样，也很容易只从抽象的角度来看待人类，只从我们这个复杂的、多方面的存在的一面来考虑问题。
I'm not really a science-fiction fan, I quite like the idea of getting away from the science-fiction side of it, for two episodes. It was lovely, it was a super story and great fun.
我不是一个真正的科幻迷，我很喜欢从科幻的角度出发，看两集。它很可爱，是个超级有趣的故事。
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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。
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。
God does not play dice with the universe.
上帝不会和宇宙玩骰子。
The human spirit must prevail over technology.
人类精神必须战胜技术。