There are many hypotheses in science which are wrong. That's perfectly all right; they're the aperture to finding out what's right. Science is a self-correcting process. To be accepted, new ideas must survive the most rigorous standards of evidence and scrutiny.

  • -- Carl Sagan 卡尔·萨根

科学上有许多假说是错误的。完全没问题;他们是发现什么是对的孔。科学是一个自我修正的过程。要被接受,新思想必须经受住最严格的证据标准和审查。

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It is only since linguistics has become more aware of its object of study, i.e. perceives the whole extent of it, that it is evident that this science can make a contribution to a range of studies that will be of interest to almost anyone.

只有当语言学对它的研究对象有了更多的认识,也就是对它的整个范围有了更多的认识之后,很明显,这门科学才能对几乎所有人都感兴趣的一系列研究作出贡献。

It cannot but happen...that those will survive whose functions happen to be most nearly in equilibrium with the modified aggregate of external forces... This survival of the fittest implies multiplication of the fittest.

它不得不发生……那些在外力的修正作用下,其功能几乎达到平衡的行星将会幸存下来。适者生存意味着适者生存的乘法。

I've never been one of the cool people at school, but then again, I don't get the people who are cool. It's not that I don't like them, it's just that they don't interest me.

我从来都不是学校里很酷的人,但话又说回来,我也不喜欢那些很酷的人。不是我不喜欢他们,只是我对他们不感兴趣。

I will argue that every scrap of biological diversity is priceless, to be learned and cherished, and never to be surrendered without a struggle.

我想说的是,生物多样性的每一个碎片都是无价的,值得学习和珍惜,不经斗争绝不能放弃。

In the sick room, ten cents' worth of human understanding equals ten dollars' worth of medical science.

在病房里,十美分的人类理解相当于十美元的医学科学。

I'm trying to break any chain of negative parenting that I might have survived.

我正试图打破任何我可能幸存下来的负面教育链。