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.

-- Asa Gray ASA灰色

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。

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It is disappointing and embarrassing to the science profession that some Nobel Laureates would deliberately use their well deserved scientific reputations and hold themselves out as experts in other fields.

一些诺贝尔奖得主故意利用他们理应享有的科学声誉，在其他领域自诩为专家，这让科学界感到失望和尴尬。

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Scientific discovery and scientific knowledge have been achieved only by those who have gone in pursuit of it without any practical purpose whatsoever in view.

科学发现和科学知识只有那些没有任何实际目的去追求的人才能取得。

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You have to have some kind of power of observation, almost like a trained observer.

你必须有一定的观察力，就像一个训练有素的观察者。

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Observing and understanding are two different things.

观察和理解是两码事。

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