最驚人的事實 - 奈爾·德葛拉司·泰森

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奈爾·德葛拉司·泰森Neil deGrasse Tyson

他是近來備受推祟的科學教育家，他的話常被截錄引用出現在熱門的論壇中，現任羅斯地球與太空中心海頓天象館館長；同時也是美國自然史博物館天文物理部的助理研究員。2006年起，他開始主持公共電視網上的科學教育節目《新星-今日科學》（NOVA ScienceNOW），2011年8月5日泰森宣布他承接原由卡爾·薩根主持的節目宇宙大探索（Cosmos: A Personal Voyage）的主持人，該節目於2014年開播後廣受歡迎。

奈爾．德葛拉司．泰森的名言：

1. 科學最棒的是就是不論你喜不喜歡，它都是真的。The good thing about science is that it's true whether or not you believe in it.


2. 問題都不是出在小孩，問題總是出在大人，是他們趕走了小孩的好奇心。他們為數眾多，他們有投票權，他們佔有資源，這就是為什麼我教育的重點放在大人身上。Kids are never the problem. They are born scientists. The problem is always the adults. They beat the curiosity out of the kids. They out-number kids. They vote. They wield resources. That's why my public focus is primarily adults.


3. 我們花了小孩們出生後的第一年教他們走路說話，剩下的時間都叫他們閉嘴坐下，一定是哪裡出錯了。
   We spend the first year of a child's life teaching it to walk and talk and the rest of its life to shut up and sit down. There's something wrong there.


4. 不知道並不可恥，真正的問題出在刻意用不理性的思想還有造作的行為去填滿無知所遺留下來的空虛。
   ... there is no shame in not knowing. The problem arises when irrational thought and attendant behavior fill the vacuum left by ignorance.


5. 在你腸子底端幾公分的短短的區域裡，住著的細菌(約一千億)比歷史上出生過的人類還要多，但確有很多人不斷地說我們是世界的主宰。
   Within one linear centimeter of your lower colon there lives and works more bacteria (about 100 billion) than all humans who have ever been born. Yet many people continue to assert that it is we who are in charge of the world.


6. 很多人常常到老了都還沒發覺，當你想要尋求愛或生命的意義時，意謂著它們可能躲在樹後或藏在石頭底下。生命中擁有最大成功的人都有一個認知，他們在生命裡創造自己的愛，建立自己的價值，產生自己的動能。對我來說，我的動力來自兩個主要思想，今天比昨天更了解這世界，還有就是減輕他人的痛苦，你會訝異這能讓你走得路程有多遠。
   The problem, often not discovered until late in life, is that when you look for things like love, meaning, motivation, it implies they are sitting behind a tree or under a rock. The most successful people recognize, that in life they create their own love, they manufacture their own meaning, they generate their own motivation.For me, I am driven by two main philosophies, know more today about the world than I knew yesterday. And along the way, lessen the suffering of others. You'd be surprised how far that gets you.


7. 我們之間都有關聯。彼此之間生物上的關聯，跟地球間化學上的關聯，還有就是跟宇宙間原子上的關聯。
   We are all connected; To each other, biologically. To the earth, chemically. To the rest of the universe atomically.


8. 我很好奇為何我們總是花更多的時間祝賀他人的成功，較少的時間去鼓勵那些失敗的人。
   Curious that we spend more time congratulating people who have succeeded than encouraging people who have not.

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