A COLLECTION OF GOOD WORDS
科学
Science
Extinction is the rule. Survival is the exception.
灭绝是规律。生存是个例外。
Information, contemplated over time, is knowledge.
信息,随着时间的推移而深思熟虑,就是知识。
All science is either physics or stamp collecting.
所有的科学不是物理就是集邮。
We overvalue the arts in relation to the sciences.
与科学相比,我们高估了艺术的价值。
Grown ups don't believe in Santa Claus. They vote.
成年人不相信有圣诞老人。他们投票。
All of science is largely formalized common sense.
所有的科学在很大程度上都是形式化的常识。
For every fact there is an infinity of hypotheses.
每一个事实都有无穷无尽的假设。
We are an impossibility in an impossible universe.
在一个不可能的宇宙中,我们是不可能的。
All inquiries carry with them some element of risk.
所有的调查都带有一定的风险。
No man is a good physician who has never been sick.
从不生病的人不是好医生。
To err is human, to persist in error is diabolical.
人非圣贤,孰能无过。
In the beginning there was nothing, which exploded.
一开始什么也没有,就爆炸了。
KEEP EXPLORING
沿着这个主题,再读几句。
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。
Two things are infinite: the universe and human stupidity; and I'm not sure about the universe.
有两件事是无限的:宇宙和人类的愚蠢;我对宇宙也不是很确定。
Information is not knowledge.
信息不是知识。
No amount of experimentation can ever prove me right; a single experiment can prove me wrong.
再多的实验也无法证明我是对的;一个实验就能证明我错了。
Freedom of thought is best promoted by the gradual illumination of men’s minds which follows from the advance of science.
随着科学的进步,人们的思想逐渐得到启发,从而促进思想自由。
We are a way for the cosmos to know itself.
我们是宇宙认识自身的一种方式。