Science commits suicide when it adopts a creed.

  • -- Thomas Henry Huxley 赫胥黎

科学一旦采纳了某种信条,就等于自杀。

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My mother taught public school, went to Harvard and then got her master's there and taught fifth and sixth grade in a public school. My dad had a more working-class lifestyle. He didn't go to college. He was an auto mechanic and a bartender and a janitor at Harvard.

我母亲在公立学校教书,上了哈佛大学,然后在那里获得硕士学位,在一所公立学校教五年级和六年级。我父亲的生活方式更倾向于工人阶级。他没有上过大学。他是哈佛大学的一名汽车机械师、酒保和看门人。

It is said an Eastern monarch once charged his wise men to invent him a sentence to be ever in view, and which should be true and appropriate in all times and situations. They presented him the words: "And this, too, shall pass away."

据说,一位东方君主曾经命令他的智者为他编造一个句子,让他随时出现在眼前,而且这个句子在任何时候和任何情况下都应该是正确和恰当的。他们对他说:“这一切都会过去的。”

And we should consider every day lost on which we have not danced at least once. And we should call every truth false which was not accompanied by at least one laugh.

我们应该想想,每一天,如果我们没有跳过一次舞,就会失去意义。我们应该称每一个真理为假的,而不是伴随着至少一个笑声。

Nobody climbs mountains for scientific reasons. Science is used to raise money for the expeditions, but you really climb for the hell of it.

没有人爬山是出于科学原因。科学是用来为探险筹集资金的,但你真的是为了好玩才去登山的。

I thought: This is not racing, it's a suicide mission.

我想:这不是比赛,这是自杀式的任务。