To be scientifically literate is to empower yourself to know when someone else is full of bullshit.

  • -- Neil deGrasse Tyson 尼尔·德格拉西·泰森

科学素养就是让自己知道别人什么时候在胡扯。

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It's very hard for me to know what to say about fusion right now, inasmuch as it is not yet scientifically feasible. I just can't understand how so many people are able to predict so much about something that still isn't scientifically possible.

我现在很难知道该怎么说核聚变,因为它在科学上还不可行。我只是不明白为什么这么多人能预测这么多科学上还不可能的事情。

Balzac's ambition was to be omnipotent. He would be Michelangelesque, and that by sheer force of minuteness. He exaggerated scientifically, and made things gigantic by a microscopic fulness of detail.

巴尔扎克的抱负是无所不能。他将成为米开朗基罗式的人物,这完全是由于他的细致入微。他在科学上夸大其词,用微观的细节使事物变得巨大。

Everything you are against weakens you. Everything you are for empowers you.

你所反对的一切都会削弱你。你所追求的一切都赋予你力量。

Awareness is empowering.

意识是授权。