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科学
Science
Also by my earliest days, I was fascinated by a utopian vision of what the world could be like. I've thought that science could be the basis for a better world, and that's what I've been trying to do all these years.
同样，在我最初的日子里，我着迷于乌托邦式的世界观。我一直认为科学可以成为一个更美好世界的基础，这也是我这些年一直在努力做的事情。
With the emergence of civilization, the rate of change shifted from hundreds of thousands of years to millennia. With the emergence of science as a way of knowing the universe, the rate of change shifted to centuries.
随着文明的出现，变化的速度从几十万年变成了几千年。随着科学作为了解宇宙的一种方式的出现，变化的速度转移到了几个世纪。
I seem to have been only a boy playing on the seashore, and diverting myself in now and then finding a smoother pebble or a prettier shell than ordinary, whilst the great ocean of truth lay all undiscovered before me.
我似乎只是一个在海滨玩耍的孩子，不时地在一块比平常更光滑的卵石或更美丽的贝壳中寻找乐趣，而真理的大海却在我面前一片未被发现的汪洋大海。
The biological task of science is to provide the fully developed human individual with as perfect a means of orientating himself as possible. No other scientific ideal can be realised, and any other must be meaningless.
科学的生物学任务是为充分发展的人类个体提供尽可能完美的定位自己的方法。没有其他的科学理想可以实现，任何其他的科学理想都是毫无意义的。
I think that consciousness has always been the most important topic in the philosophy of mind, and one of the most important topics in cognitive science as a whole, but it had been surprisingly neglected in recent years.
我认为意识一直是心灵哲学中最重要的话题，也是整个认知科学中最重要的话题之一，但令人惊讶的是，近年来它被忽视了。
False facts are highly injurious to the progress of science, for they often endure long; but false views, if supported by some evidence, do little harm, for every one takes a salutary pleasure in proving their falseness.
错误的事实对科学的进步是非常有害的，因为它们往往持续很长时间;但是，错误的观点，如果有一些证据支持，几乎没有什么害处，因为每个人都乐于证明自己的错误。
I am pleased to be considered a 'denier' in this cause if this puts me in the class with those who defied prevailing 'scientific consensus' that the earth was flat and that the earth was the not the center of the universe.
我很高兴在这个问题上被认为是一个“否决者”，如果这让我和那些反对地球是平的、地球不是宇宙中心这一普遍的“科学共识”的人站在一起的话。
Ours is a world of nuclear giants and ethical infants. We know more about war than we know about peace, more about killing than we know about living. We have grasped the mystery of the atom and rejected the Sermon on the Mount.
我们的世界充满了核巨人和道德婴儿。我们对战争的了解多于对和平的了解，对杀戮的了解多于对生活的了解。我们掌握了原子的奥秘，拒绝了登山宝训。
Like many students, I found the drudgery of real experiments and the slowness of progress a complete shock, and at my low points I contemplated other alternative careers including study of the philosophy or sociology of science.
和许多学生一样，我发现真正实验的苦差事和进展的缓慢完全令人震惊，在我情绪低落的时候，我考虑过从事其他职业，包括学习哲学或科学社会学。
Looking back, video game design seems a natural fit, although there was no such thing when I was growing up. I built a Tic-Tac-Toe playing machine in my teens which went up in smoke on the night it was scheduled to go to a science fair.
回顾过去，电子游戏设计似乎是一种自然的契合，尽管在我的成长过程中并没有这样的东西。我在十几岁的时候造了一个井字游戏机，计划去参加一个科学展览的那天晚上，它就冒烟了。
In teaching man, experimental science results in lessening his pride more and more by providing him every day that primary causes, like the objective reality of things, will be hidden from him forever and that he can only know relations.
在教育人类的过程中，实验科学使人类的自豪感越来越少，因为实验科学每天都告诉人类，主要的原因，比如事物的客观现实，将永远对人类隐藏起来，人类只能知道关系。
Faulkner is a writer who has had much to do with my soul, but Hemingway is the one who had the most to do with my craft - not simply for his books, but for his astounding knowledge of the aspect of craftsmanship in the science of writing.
福克纳是一位与我的灵魂有很大关系的作家，但海明威与我的写作技巧关系最大——不仅仅是因为他的书，还因为他在写作技巧方面惊人的知识。
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The true sign of intelligence is not knowledge but imagination.
智慧的真正标志不是知识，而是想象力。
The measure of intelligence is the ability to change.
衡量智力的标准是改变的能力。
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。
Wisdom is not a product of schooling but of the lifelong attempt to acquire it.
智慧不是学校教育的产物，而是终身追求的结果。
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。
A celibate clergy is an especially good idea, because it tends to suppress any hereditary propensity toward fanaticism.
独身神职人员是一个特别好的主意，因为它倾向于抑制任何遗传的狂热倾向。