A COLLECTION OF GOOD WORDS
科学
Science
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。
Even when I was studying mathematics, physics, and computer science, it always seemed that the problem of consciousness was about the most interesting problem out there for science to come to grips with.
甚至当我在学习数学、物理和计算机科学时，意识的问题似乎总是科学要解决的最有趣的问题。
The whole history of science has been the gradual realization that events do not happen in an arbitrary manner, but that they reflect a certain underlying order, which may or may not be divinely inspired.
整个科学史逐渐认识到，事件不是以任意的方式发生的，而是反映了某种潜在的秩序，这种秩序可能是神的启示，也可能不是。
Let us embrace Science and the new technologies unfettered, for it is these which will liberate mankind from the myth of god, and free us from our age old fears, from disease, death and the sweat of labor.
让我们不受束缚地拥抱科学和新技术，因为正是这些将把人类从神的神话中解放出来，把我们从年老的恐惧、疾病、死亡和劳动的汗水中解放出来。
Ignorance more frequently begets confidence than does knowledge: it is those who know little, and not those who know much, who so positively assert that this or that problem will never be solved by science.
无知比知识更容易带来自信:正是那些知道得很少的人，而不是那些知道得很多的人，如此积极地断言这个或那个问题永远不会被科学解决。
So I wrote what I hoped would be science fiction, I was not at all sure if what I wrote would be acceptable even. But I don't say that I consciously wrote with humour. Humour is a part of you that comes out.
所以我写了我希望是科幻小说的东西，我甚至不确定我写的东西是否可以被接受。但我并不是说我有意识地用幽默写作。幽默是你与生俱来的一部分。
Without renouncing the support of physics, it is possible for the physiology of the senses, not only to pursue its own course of development, but also to afford to physical science itself powerful assistance.
如果不放弃物理学的支持，感官生理学就有可能不仅追求自己的发展历程，而且为物理科学本身提供有力的帮助。
And if doctor says that you don't have IBS with constipation, you might want to get a second opinion, because I had doctors that were telling me... of course, a lot of this has to do with science - progressing.
如果医生说你没有便秘的肠易激综合征，你可能想要得到另一个意见，因为我的医生告诉我…当然，这在很大程度上与科学进步有关。
The usual approach of science of constructing a mathematical model cannot answer the questions of why there should be a universe for the model to describe. Why does the universe go to all the bother of existing?
构建数学模型的通常科学方法不能回答为什么模型要描述一个宇宙的问题。为什么宇宙要如此麻烦地存在?
There's no doubt that scientific training helps many authors to write better science fiction. And yet, several of the very best were English majors who could not parse a differential equation to save their lives.
毫无疑问，科学训练帮助许多作家写出更好的科幻小说。然而，其中几个最优秀的学生是英语专业的学生，他们无法解析微分方程来拯救自己的生命。
Many who have had an opportunity of knowing any more about mathematics confuse it with arithmetic, and consider it an arid science. In reality, however, it is a science which requires a great amount of imagination.
许多曾经有机会了解更多数学知识的人把数学和算术混为一谈，认为数学是一门枯燥无味的科学。然而，在现实中，这是一门需要大量想象力的科学。
That subject has lost its one time appeal to economists as our science has become more abstract, but my interest has even grown more intense as the questions raised by the sociology of science became more prominent.
随着我们的科学变得越来越抽象，这门学科对经济学家失去了一度的吸引力，但随着科学社会学提出的问题变得更加突出，我的兴趣甚至变得更加浓厚。
KEEP EXPLORING
沿着这个主题，再读几句。
Agency by agency, we frequently have lost a bit of ground, at least to inflation-but had it not been for the efforts we've made to educate people about the importance of science, technology and advanced education, those predictions very well might have come true.
一个机构接一个机构，我们经常失去一些阵地，至少是在通货膨胀面前——但是，如果不是我们努力教育人们科学、技术和高等教育的重要性，这些预测很可能已经成为现实。
Every Saint has a Past and every Sinner has a future. Don't give up.
每个圣人都有过去，每个罪人都有未来。不要放弃。
If I have seen further it is by standing on the shoulders of giants.
如果说我看得更远，那是因为我站在巨人的肩膀上。
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。
There comes a time when the mind takes a higher plane of knowledge but can never prove how it got there.
总有那么一段时间，我们的头脑会获得更高层次的知识，但却永远无法证明它是如何做到这一点的。
The first principle is that you must not fool yourself, and you are the easiest person to fool.
第一条原则是你不能欺骗自己，你是最容易被欺骗的人。