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科学Science/Research[英语名人名言]

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Organic chemistry is the chemistry of carbon compounds. Biochemistry is the study of carbon compounds that crawl.

-- Mike Adams

A behaviorist is someone who pulls habits out of rats.

The most exciting phrase to hear in science, the one that heralds² the most discoveries, is not "Eureka!", but "That's funny..."

-- Isaac Asimov

Inanimate objects are classified scientifically into three categories-- those that don't work, those that break down, and those that get lost.

-- Russell Baker³

An expert is a person who has made all the mistakes that can be made in a very narrow field.

-- Niels Bohr

The world has achieved brilliance⁴ without conscience. Ours is a world of nuclear giants and ethical⁵ infants.

-- General Omar Bradley

Art and science have their meeting point in method.

-- Edward Bulwer-Lytton

In science one tries to tell people, in such a way as to be understood by everyone, something that no one ever knew before. But in poetry, it's the exact opposite.

-- Paul Dirac

That's the nature of research--you don't know what in hell you're doing.

-- 'Doc' Edgerton

A man sits with a pretty girl for an hour, it seems like a minute. He sits on a hot stove for a minute, it's longer than any hour. That is relativity.

-- Albert Einstein

A theory is something nobody believes, except the person who made it. An experiment is something everybody believes, except the person who made it.

-- Albert Einstein, attributed

Everything should be made as simple as possible, but not simpler.

-- Albert Einstein

If the facts don't fit the theory, change the facts.

-- Albert Einstein

If we knew what we were doing, it wouldn't be called research, would it?

-- Albert Einstein

Never regard study as a duty, but as the enviable opportunity to learn to know the liberating⁶ influence of beauty in the realm of the spirit for your own personal joy and to the profit of the community to which your later work belongs.

-- Albert Einstein

The grand aim of all science is to cover the greatest number of empirical facts by logical deduction⁷ from the smallest number of hypotheses or axioms.

-- Albert Einstein

The most beautiful thing we can experience is the mysterious. It is the source of all true art and science.

-- Albert Einstein

When you are courting a nice girl an hour seems like a second. When you sit on a red-hot cinder⁸ a second seems like an hour. That's relativity.

-- Albert Einstein

We have a habit in writing articles published in scientific journals to make the work as finished as possible, to cover up all the tracks, to not worry about the blind alleys⁹ or describe how you had the wrong idea at first, and so on. So there isn't any place to publish, in a dignified¹⁰ manner, what you actually did in order to get to do the work.

-- Richard Feynman

When I am working on a problem I never think about beauty. I only think about how to solve the problem. But when I have finished, if the solution is not beautiful, I know it is wrong.

-- Buckminster Fuller

Hardly a year passes that fails to find a new, oft-times exotic, research method or technique added to the armamentarium of political inquiry¹¹. Anyone who cannot negotiate Chi squares, assess randomization, statistical¹³ significance, and standard deviations¹⁴ is less than illiterate¹⁵; he is preconscious.

-- A. James Gregor, An Introduction to Metapolitics, 1971

An undefined problem has an infinite number of solutions.

-- Robert A. Humphrey

It is the customary fate of new truths to begin as heresies¹⁶ and to end as superstitions¹⁷.

-- Aldous Huxley

The great tragedy of science, the slaying¹⁸ of a beautiful theory by an ugly fact.

-- Thomas Henry Huxley

When you steal from one author, it's plagiarism¹⁹; if you steal from many, it's research.

-- Wilson Mizner

All science is concerned with the relationship of cause and effect. Each scientific discovery increases man's ability to predict the consequences of his actions and thus his ability to control future events.

-- Lawrence J. Peter

Research is the act of going up alleys to see if they are blind.

-- Plutarch

The scientific theory I like best is that the rings of Saturn²⁰ are composed entirely²¹ of lost airline luggage.

-- Mark Russell

The only thing you will ever be able to say in the so-called 'social' sciences is: "some do, some don't."

-- Ernest Rutherford

Celestial²² navigation is based on the premise²³ that the Earth is the center of the universe. The premise is wrong, but the navigation works. An incorrect model can be a useful tool.

-- Kelvin Throop III

. . . the social sciences were for all those who had not yet decided²⁴ what to do with their lives, and for all those whose premature²⁵ frustrations²⁶ led them into the sterile²⁷ alleys of confrontation²⁸.

-- Peter Ustinov, Dear Me

Science is a collection of successful recipes.

-- Paul Valery

Basic research is what I'm doing when I don't know what I'm doing.

-- Wernher Von Braun

Anyone who considers arithmetical methods of producing random¹² digits²⁹ is, of course, in a state of sin.

-- John Von Neuman

If you're not part of the solution, you're part of the precipitate³⁰.

-- Steven Wright

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1 anonymous
adj.无名的；匿名的；无特色的
参考例句：
Sending anonymous letters is a cowardly act.寄匿名信是懦夫的行为。 The author wishes to remain anonymous.作者希望姓名不公开。

2 heralds
n.使者( herald的名词复数 )；预报者；预兆；传令官v.预示( herald的第三人称单数 )；宣布（好或重要）
参考例句：
The song of birds heralds the approach of spring. 百鸟齐鸣报春到。来自《现代英汉综合大词典》 The wind sweeping through the tower heralds a rising storm in the mountain. 山雨欲来风满楼。来自《现代汉英综合大词典》

3 baker
n.面包师
参考例句：
The baker bakes his bread in the bakery.面包师在面包房内烤面包。 The baker frosted the cake with a mixture of sugar and whites of eggs.面包师在蛋糕上撒了一层白糖和蛋清的混合料。

4 brilliance
n.光辉，辉煌，壮丽，（卓越的）才华，才智
参考例句：
I was totally amazed by the brilliance of her paintings.她的绘画才能令我惊歎不已。 The gorgeous costume added to the brilliance of the dance.华丽的服装使舞蹈更加光彩夺目。

5 ethical
adj.伦理的，道德的，合乎道德的
参考例句：
It is necessary to get the youth to have a high ethical concept.必须使青年具有高度的道德观念。 It was a debate which aroused fervent ethical arguments.那是一场引发强烈的伦理道德争论的辩论。

6 liberating
解放，释放( liberate的现在分词 )
参考例句：
Revolution means liberating the productive forces. 革命就是为了解放生产力。 They had already taken on their shoulders the burden of reforming society and liberating mankind. 甚至在这些集会聚谈中，他们就已经夸大地把改革社会、解放人群的责任放在自己的肩头了。来自汉英文学 - 家（1-26） - 家（1-26）

7 deduction
n.减除，扣除，减除额；推论，推理，演绎
参考例句：
No deduction in pay is made for absence due to illness.因病请假不扣工资。 His deduction led him to the correct conclusion.他的推断使他得出正确的结论。

8 cinder
n.余烬，矿渣
参考例句：
The new technology for the preparation of superfine ferric oxide from pyrite cinder is studied.研究了用硫铁矿烧渣为原料，制取超细氧化铁红的新工艺。 The cinder contains useful iron,down from producing sulphuric acid by contact process.接触法制硫酸的矿渣中含有铁矿。

9 alleys
胡同，小巷( alley的名词复数 )；小径
参考例句：
I followed him through a maze of narrow alleys. 我紧随他穿过一条条迂迴曲折的窄巷。 The children lead me through the maze of alleys to the edge of the city. 孩子们领我穿过迷宫一般的街巷，来到城边。

10 dignified
a.可敬的，高贵的
参考例句：
Throughout his trial he maintained a dignified silence. 在整个审讯过程中，他始终沉默以保持尊严。 He always strikes such a dignified pose before his girlfriend. 他总是在女友面前摆出这种庄严的姿态。

11 inquiry
n.打听，询问，调查，查问
参考例句：
Many parents have been pressing for an inquiry into the problem.许多家长迫切要求调查这个问题。 The field of inquiry has narrowed down to five persons.调查的范围已经缩小到只剩5个人了。

12 random
adj.随机的；任意的；n.偶然的(或随便的)行动
参考例句：
The list is arranged in a random order.名单排列不分先后。 On random inspection the meat was found to be bad.经抽查，发现肉变质了。

13 statistical
adj.统计的，统计学的
参考例句：
He showed the price fluctuations in a statistical table.他用统计表显示价格的波动。 They're making detailed statistical analysis.他们正在做具体的统计分析。

14 deviations
背离，偏离( deviation的名词复数 )；离经叛道的行为
参考例句：
Local deviations depend strongly on the local geometry of the solid matrix. 局部偏离严格地依赖于固体矩阵的局部几何形状。 They were a series of tactical day-to-day deviations from White House policy. 它们是一系列策略上一天天摆脱白宫政策的偏向。

15 illiterate
adj.文盲的；无知的；n.文盲
参考例句：
There are still many illiterate people in our country.在我国还有许多文盲。 I was an illiterate in the old society,but now I can read.我这个旧社会的文盲，今天也认字了。

16 heresies
n.异端邪说，异教( heresy的名词复数 )
参考例句：
However, life would be pleasanter if Rhett would recant his heresies. 不过，如果瑞德放其他的那套异端邪说，生活就会惬意得多。来自飘（部分） The heresy of heresies was common sense. 一切异端当中顶大的异端——那便是常识。来自英汉文学

17 superstitions
迷信，迷信行为( superstition的名词复数 )
参考例句：
Old superstitions seem incredible to educated people. 旧的迷信对于受过教育的人来说是不可思议的。 Do away with all fetishes and superstitions. 破除一切盲目崇拜和迷信。

18 slaying
杀戮。
参考例句：
The man mimed the slaying of an enemy. 此人比手划脚地表演砍死一个敌人的情况。 He is suspected of having been an accomplice in the slaying,butthey can't pin it on him. 他有嫌疑曾参与该杀人案，但他们找不到证据来指控他。

19 plagiarism
n.剽窃，抄袭
参考例句：
Teachers in America fight to control cheating and plagiarism.美国老师们努力对付欺骗和剽窃的问题。 Now he's in real trouble.He's accused of plagiarism.现在他是真遇到麻烦了。他被指控剽窃。

20 Saturn
n.农神，土星
参考例句：
Astronomers used to ask why only Saturn has rings.天文学家们过去一直感到奇怪，为什么只有土星有光环。 These comparisons suggested that Saturn is made of lighter materials.这些比较告诉我们，土星由较轻的物质构成。

21 entirely
ad.全部地，完整地；完全地，彻底地
参考例句：
The fire was entirely caused by their neglect of duty. 那场火灾完全是由于他们失职而引起的。 His life was entirely given up to the educational work. 他的一生统统献给了教育工作。

22 celestial
adj.天体的；天上的
参考例句：
The rosy light yet beamed like a celestial dawn.玫瑰色的红光依然象天上的朝霞一样绚丽。 Gravity governs the motions of celestial bodies.万有引力控制着天体的运动。

23 premise
n.前提；v.提论，预述
参考例句：
Let me premise my argument with a bit of history.让我引述一些史实作为我立论的前提。 We can deduce a conclusion from the premise.我们可以从这个前提推出结论。

24 decided
adj.决定了的，坚决的；明显的，明确的
参考例句：
This gave them a decided advantage over their opponents.这使他们比对手具有明显的优势。 There is a decided difference between British and Chinese way of greeting.英国人和中国人打招呼的方式有很明显的区别。

25 premature
adj.比预期时间早的；不成熟的，仓促的
参考例句：
It is yet premature to predict the possible outcome of the dialogue.预言这次对话可能有什么结果为时尚早。 The premature baby is doing well.那个早产的婴儿很健康。

26 frustrations
挫折( frustration的名词复数 )；失败；挫败；失意
参考例句：
The temptation would grow to take out our frustrations on Saigon. 由于我们遭到挫折而要同西贡算帐的引诱力会增加。 Aspirations will be raised, but so will frustrations. 人们会产生种种憧憬，但是种种挫折也会随之而来。

27 sterile
adj.不毛的，不孕的，无菌的，枯燥的，贫瘠的
参考例句：
This top fits over the bottle and keeps the teat sterile.这个盖子严实地盖在奶瓶上，保持奶嘴无菌。 The farmers turned the sterile land into high fields.农民们把不毛之地变成了高产田。

28 confrontation
n.对抗，对峙，冲突
参考例句：
We can't risk another confrontation with the union.我们不能冒再次同工会对抗的危险。 After years of confrontation,they finally have achieved a modus vivendi.在对抗很长时间后，他们最后达成安宁生存的非正式协议。

29 digits
n.数字( digit的名词复数 )；手指，足趾
参考例句：
The number 1000 contains four digits. 1000是四位数。来自《简明英汉词典》 The number 410 contains three digits. 数字 410 中包括三个数目字。来自《现代英汉综合大词典》

30 precipitate
adj.突如其来的；vt.使突然发生；n.沉淀物
参考例句：
I don't think we should make precipitate decisions.我认为我们不应该贸然作出决定。 The king was too precipitate in declaring war.国王在宣战一事上过于轻率。

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