It vexes me when they would constrain science by the authority of the Scriptures, and yet do not consider themselves bound to answer reason and experiment.

  • -- Galileo Galilei 伽利略伽利略

当他们以圣经的权威来约束科学,却不认为自己必须回答理性和实验的问题时,我感到很苦恼。

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I just dove into the Scriptures and started memorizing different scriptures and started becoming as much as possible a part of the scripture. I wanted it to be grafted into my heart.

我只是沉浸在圣经中,开始记忆不同的圣经,并开始尽可能成为圣经的一部分。我想把它移植到我的心脏里。

Authority is by nothing so much strengthened and confirmed as by custom; for no man easily distrusts the things which he and all men have been always bred up to.

没有什么比习俗更能加强和巩固权威了;因为没有人轻易地不信任他和所有人一直以来所养成的习惯。

A thinker sees his own actions as experiments and questions--as attempts to find out something. Success and failure are for him answers above all.

一个思考者把自己的行为看作是实验和问题——即试图发现一些东西。成功和失败是他最重要的答案。

Vast is the field of Science. The more a man knows, the more he will find he has to know.

科学领域是广阔的。一个人知道的越多,他会发现他必须知道的越多。

Now Heaven and Earth are older than the temples, and older than the Scriptures.

天地比殿和经都旧。

You can delegate authority, but you cannot delegate responsibility.

你可以授权,但不能授权责任。