Science is not a heartless pursuit of objective information. It is a creative human activity, its geniuses acting more as artists than as information processors.

  • -- Stephen Jay Gould 斯蒂芬·杰·古尔德

科学不是对客观信息的无情追求。它是一种创造性的人类活动,它的天才更多地扮演艺术家的角色,而不是信息处理者。

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Science goes from question to question; big questions, and little, tentative answers. The questions as they age grow ever broader, the answers are seen to be more limited.

科学从一个问题到另一个问题;大问题,小问题,试探性的答案。随着年龄的增长,这些问题的范围越来越广,答案似乎也越来越有限。

Events in a single human lifetime are remarkable. Events from all human lifetimes are inconceivable.

人类一生中所发生的事情是非凡的。人类一生中发生的事件都是不可想象的。