Science is built up of facts, as a house is with stones. But a collection of facts is no more a science than a heap of stones is a house.

  • -- Henri Poincare 彭卡勒

科学是建立在事实之上的,正如房子是用石头砌成的一样。但是收集事实并不是一门科学,正如一堆石头并不是一所房子一样。

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There was a great deal of peer recognition to be gained in elementary school by being able to draw well. One girl could draw horses so well, she was looked upon as a kind of sorceress.

在小学里,同学们会因为画得好而得到很多认可。一个女孩画马画得非常好,人们把她看作是女巫。

I do have a blurred memory of sitting on the stairs and trying over and over again to tie one of my shoelaces, but that is all that comes back to me of school itself.

我确实有一段模糊的记忆,记得我坐在楼梯上,一次又一次地试着系鞋带,但这就是我在学校里的全部回忆。

Science creates the future without knowing what the future will be. If scientists knew tomorrow’s discovery they would make it.

科学创造未来,却不知道未来会是什么样子。如果科学家们知道明天的发现,他们就会成功。

I am aware of the usefulness of science to society and of the benefits society derives from it.

我意识到科学对社会的作用,以及科学给社会带来的好处。