As an undergraduate, I did maths and physics. That doesn't make me a scientist. So I try to read and understand and talk to scientists.

  • -- Nicholas Stern 尼古拉斯·斯特恩

本科时,我学数学和物理。这并不能说明我是科学家。所以我试着阅读、理解和与科学家交谈。

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Scientists will eventually stop flailing around with solar power and focus their efforts on harnessing the only truly unlimited source of energy on the planet: stupidity. I predict that in the future, scientists will learn how to convert stupidity into clean fuel.

科学家们最终将停止对太阳能的浪费,把精力集中在开发地球上唯一真正无限的能源上:愚蠢。我预测在未来,科学家们将学会如何把愚蠢转化为清洁燃料。

Physics is becoming so unbelievably complex that it is taking longer and longer to train a physicist. It is taking so long, in fact, to train a physicist to the place where he understands the nature of physical problems that he is already too old to solve them.

物理学变得如此复杂,以至于培养一个物理学家需要的时间越来越长。事实上,要把一个物理学家培养到能够理解物理问题本质的程度需要很长时间,以至于他已经老得无法解决这些问题了。

I think that cognitive scientists would support the view that our visual system does not directly represent what is out there in the world and that our brain constructs a lot of the imagery that we believe we are seeing.

我认为认知科学家会支持这样一种观点,即我们的视觉系统并不直接代表世界上的东西,我们的大脑构造了很多我们认为我们看到的图像。

What folly takes light through ether to each eye from every horizon.

多么愚蠢的行为,让光穿过以太,从每一个地平线进入每一只眼睛。