But what sin is to the moralist and crime to the jurist so to the scientific man is ignorance.

  • -- Frederick Soddy 弗雷德里克·索迪

但是,对于道德家来说,罪恶是什么;对于法学家来说,犯罪是什么;对于科学家来说,无知也是什么。

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The credit which the apparent conformity with recognized scientific standards can gain for seemingly simple but false theories may, as the present instance shows, have grave consequences.

正如目前的例子所表明的那样,表面上符合公认的科学标准的人可以从看似简单而错误的理论中获得荣誉,这可能会产生严重的后果。

There are two types of sheltered existences, one good, the other, bad. The first is being sheltered from the rain; the second, from a knowledge of the rain’s existence.

有两种受庇护的存在,一种是好的,另一种是坏的。第一个是避雨;第二,源于对雨的存在的认识。

People are not the only interesting organism on earth. From the point of view of scientific or commercial value, there are lots of interesting organisms.

人类并不是地球上唯一有趣的生物。从科学或商业价值的角度来看,有许多有趣的生物体。

Ignorance is bliss only to the ignorant.

无知只对无知者是福。