The conscious purpose of science is control of Nature; its unconscious effect is disruption and chaos.

  • -- William Irwin Thompson 威廉·厄文·汤普森

科学的自觉目的是控制自然;它的无意识效果是破坏和混乱。

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So I wrote what I hoped would be science fiction, I was not at all sure if what I wrote would be acceptable even. But I don't say that I consciously wrote with humour. Humour is a part of you that comes out.

所以我写了我希望是科幻小说的东西,我甚至不确定我写的东西是否可以被接受。但我并不是说我有意识地用幽默写作。幽默是你与生俱来的一部分。

Even when I was studying mathematics, physics, and computer science, it always seemed that the problem of consciousness was about the most interesting problem out there for science to come to grips with.

甚至当我在学习数学、物理和计算机科学时,意识的问题似乎总是科学要解决的最有趣的问题。