How is it that, in the face of overwhelming scientific evidence, there are still some who would deny the dangers of climate change? Not surprisingly, the loudest voices are not scientific, and it is remarkable how many economists, lawyers, journalists and politicians set themselves up as experts on the science.

  • -- Nicholas Stern 尼古拉斯·斯特恩

为什么,面对压倒性的科学证据,仍然有一些人会否认气候变化的危险?毫不奇怪,最响亮的声音并不科学,而且值得注意的是,有多少经济学家、律师、记者和政治家自称是科学专家。

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We may take it to be the accepted idea that the Mosaic books were not handed down to us for our instruction in scientific knowledge, and that it is our duty to ground our scientific beliefs upon observation and inference, unmixed with considerations of a different order.

我们可以接受这样一种观点,即摩西书并不是为了传授我们科学知识而流传下来的,我们有责任把我们的科学信念建立在观察和推理的基础上,不掺杂其他顺序的考虑。

If you must break the law, do it to seize power: in all other cases observe it.

如果你一定要犯法,那就为夺取权力而犯法:在所有其他情况下都要守法。

Scientific advancement should aim to affirm and to improve human life.

科学进步的目的应该是肯定和改善人类的生活。

The really clever people now want to be lawyers or journalists.

真正聪明的人现在想成为律师或记者。