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我向中学生推荐的名人论科学语录
武夷山
按:几年前,我为《科学时报》的“中学生周刊”每期推荐一两条国外名流论科学的语录,都是我选择翻译的。可惜该周刊后来停刊了。现在与博友分享一下:
The whole of science is nothing more than a refinement of everyday thinking.
Einstein
整个科学无非就是日常思维的精致化。
爱因斯坦
The great tragedy of science—the slaying of a beautiful hypothesis by an ugly fact.
Thomas Henry Huxley
科学这个伟大的悲剧在于――丑陋的事实可杀死美好的假说。
英国生物学家赫胥黎
I am sorry to say that there is too much point to the wisecrack that life is extinct on other planets because their scientists were more advanced than ours.
John F. Kennedy
有这么一句俏皮话:其他行星上的生命之所以绝灭,就是因为他们的科学家比我们地球上的科学家更先进。我想冒昧地说,这句俏皮话确实不无道理。
美国前总统肯尼迪
Science is built of facts the way a house is built of bricks; but an accumulation of facts is no more science than a pile of bricks is a house.
Henri Poincaré
科学由事实构成,一如房子由砖瓦建成;但事实的积累并不就是科学,正如一堆砖瓦并不就是房子一样。
法国数学家彭加勒
In art nothing worth doing can be done without a genius; in science even a very moderate capacity can contribute to a supreme achievement.
Bertrand Russell
在艺术上,凡值得一做的事,只有天才方能做得成;而在科学中,即便能力有限者也能为奇功伟业做出贡献。
诺贝尔文学奖获得者、英国哲学家罗素
Science is always simple and always profound. It is only the half-truths that are dangerous.
George Bernard Shaw
科学总是既朴素又深刻。唯有真假参半的玩意儿甚为危险。
英国大文豪萧伯纳
Science is the great antidote to the poison of enthusiasm and superstition.
Adam Smith
对于狂热和迷信之毒素,科学是强力解毒剂。
英国经济学家亚当.斯密
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