A COLLECTION OF GOOD WORDS
科学
Science
There are many hypotheses in science which are wrong. That's perfectly all right; they're the aperture to finding out what's right. Science is a self-correcting process. To be accepted, new ideas must survive the most rigorous standards of evidence and scrutiny.
科学上有许多假说是错误的。完全没问题;他们是发现什么是对的孔。科学是一个自我修正的过程。要被接受，新思想必须经受住最严格的证据标准和审查。
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。
We have also arranged things so that almost no one understands science and technology. This is a prescription for disaster. We might get away with it for a while, but sooner or later this combustible mixture of ignorance and power is going to blow up in our faces.
我们还把事情安排得几乎没有人了解科学和技术。这是灾难的处方。我们可能会侥幸逃脱一段时间，但这种无知和权力的可燃混合物迟早会在我们的脸上爆炸。
I thought it must be pure science fiction. But when I checked it out I found a lot of magazine articles that actually supported the theory behind the book which was incredible. That's when I decided to acquire the rights of the book and everything went from there.
我想那一定是纯粹的科幻小说。但当我检查它的时候，我发现很多杂志文章实际上支持这本书背后的理论，这是不可思议的。就在那时，我决定获得这本书的版权，一切都从那时开始。
The chief difference between horror fans and science fiction fans lies in why they won't walk backwards. A horror fan won't walk backwards because he knows he'll be knifed by a madman. A science fiction fan won't walk backwards because he knows he'll step on the cat.
恐怖迷和科幻迷之间的主要区别在于他们不会后退。恐怖迷不会后退，因为他知道自己会被疯子刺伤。科幻迷不会后退，因为他知道自己会踩到猫。
We are at the very beginning of time for the human race. It is not unreasonable that we grapple with problems. But there are tens of thousands of years in the future. Our responsibility is to do what we can, learn what we can, improve the solutions, and pass them on.
我们正处在人类历史的开端。我们努力解决问题并不是没有道理的。但在未来还有数万年。我们的责任是尽我们所能，学习我们所能，改进解决方案，并把它们传递下去。
How thoroughly it is ingrained in mathematical science that every real advance goes hand in hand with the invention of sharper tools and simpler methods which, at the same time, assist in understanding earlier theories and in casting aside some more complicated developments.
每一个真正的进步都伴随着更锋利的工具和更简单的方法的发明，这在数学科学中是多么根深蒂固啊!与此同时，这些工具和方法有助于理解早期的理论，并把一些更复杂的发展抛诸脑后。
I'm crazy about Grant: his character, his nature, his science in fighting and everything else. But I don't like the idea that he never accepted the blame for anything, always found someone else to blame for any mistake that was ever made, including blaming Prentiss for Shiloh.
我为格兰特着迷:他的性格、他的天性、他在战斗中的科学以及其他一切。但我不喜欢他从不接受任何指责，总是为自己犯下的任何错误找别人来承担责任，包括把希洛的过错归咎于普伦蒂斯。
Once regarded as the herald of enlightenment in all spheres of knowledge, science is now increasingly seen as a strictly instrumental system of control. Its use as a system of manipulation and its role in restricting human freedom now parallel in every detail its use as a means of natural manipulation.
科学曾经被认为是所有知识领域启蒙运动的先驱，现在却越来越被视为一种严格的工具控制系统。它作为一种操纵系统的使用和它在限制人类自由方面的作用现在在每一个细节上都与它作为一种自然操纵手段的使用平行。
One of the strongest motives that lead men to art and science is escape from everyday life with its painful crudity and hopeless dreariness, from the fetters of one''s own ever-shifting desires. A finely tempered nature longs to escape from the personal life into the world of objective perception and thought.
引导人们走向艺术和科学的最强烈的动机之一，是摆脱日常生活中令人痛苦的粗俗和无望的沉闷，摆脱自己不断变化的欲望的束缚。性情温和的人渴望逃离个人生活，进入客观的感知和思考的世界。
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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。
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。
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。
To invent, you need a good imagination and a pile of junk.
要想发明，你需要好的想象力和一堆垃圾。
An inborn tendency toward science turning it into a lifelong commitment.
将科学转变为终身事业的一种与生俱来的倾向。