The usual approach of science of constructing a mathematical model cannot answer the questions of why there should be a universe for the model to describe. Why does the universe go to all the bother of existing?

  • -- Stephen Hawking 斯蒂芬霍金

构建数学模型的通常科学方法不能回答为什么模型要描述一个宇宙的问题。为什么宇宙要如此麻烦地存在?

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Once regarded as the herald of enlightenment in all spheres of knowledge, science is now increasingly seen as a strictly instrumental system of control. Its use as a system of manipulation and its role in restricting human freedom now parallel in every detail its use as a means of natural manipulation.

科学曾经被认为是所有知识领域启蒙运动的先驱,现在却越来越被视为一种严格的工具控制系统。它作为一种操纵系统的使用和它在限制人类自由方面的作用现在在每一个细节上都与它作为一种自然操纵手段的使用平行。

Two years ago I would have called this baloney.

两年前,我可能会说这是胡扯。