In science it often happens that scientists say, 'You know that's a really good argument; my position is mistaken', and then they would actually change their minds and you never hear that old view from them again. They really do it. It doesn't happen.

  • -- Carl Sagan 卡尔·萨根

在科学领域,科学家们经常会说,‘你知道这是一个很好的论点;我的立场是错误的’,然后他们就会改变主意,你就再也听不到他们的旧观点了。他们真的做到了。它不会发生。

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Corporate governance is a huge issue too. We don't have women on these corporate boards. More than half of the students in law school are women, more than half of the women, I think, in medical school now are women.

公司治理也是一个大问题。我们的公司董事会中没有女性。法学院超过一半的学生是女性,我想,现在医学院超过一半的学生是女性。

Science cannot solve the ultimate mystery of nature. And that is because, in the last analysis, we ourselves are a part of the mystery that we are trying to solve.

科学不能解决自然的终极奥秘。这是因为,归根结底,我们自己就是我们试图解开的谜团的一部分。

What is a scientist after all? It is a curious man looking through a keyhole, the keyhole of nature, trying to know what's going on.

科学家到底是什么?这是一个好奇的人透过钥匙孔,大自然的钥匙孔,试图知道发生了什么。

There is one thing alone that stands the brunt of life throughout its course; a quiet conscience.

只有一件事在整个生命过程中首当其冲;一个安静的良心。

When an arguer argues dispassionately he thinks only of the argument.

当一个辩论者不动声色地争辩时,他只想到辩论本身。

Men's arguments often prove nothing but their wishes.

人们的争论往往只能证明他们的愿望。