追蹤「你知道嗎?」
引用的影片：
1) 蒼白的小藍點 Pale blue dot
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4PN5JJDh78I
2) 哈柏深領域The Hubble Ultra Deep Field in 3D
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oAVjF_7ensg
3) 從未接觸文明的人類Uncontacted Tribe - Human Planet: Jungles - BBC One
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5lWVVFHzuLE
4) 電子廢棄物的去所 - 迦納 Digital dumping ground - Ghana
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qY3u3b9oZJc
5) 索馬利亞饑荒 Fault Lines: horn of Africa Crisis: Somalia's Famine
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iRZPMd1H7Z0
6) 星系大黑洞 Black Hole Galaxy Sculptor
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fRyD1ourEzU
Human Planet Web exculusive trailer
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2HiUMlOz4UQ
Discovering The Sistine Chapel
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gQXxcnuC68I
Nuclear-bomb explosions
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5gD_TL1BqFg
Human Planet Jungle
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h-oVNeqFHww
Consider again that pale blue dot we've been talking about
再看一眼這蒼白的小藍點
Imagine that you take a good long look at it.
想像你專注地凝視著它
Imagine you are staring at the dot for any length of time
想像這樣看著它好長一段時間
and then, try to convince yourself
然後再試著說服你自己
that God created the whole universe
天神創造了整個宇宙
for one of the ten million or so species of life
僅為了數千萬物種的其中之一
that inhabit that speck of dust
活在這蒼海一栗中的人類
Now take it a step further:
再進一步地思索
Imagine that everything was made just for a single shade of that species,
想像萬物僅是為了某種膚色的人所創造的
or gender,
或是某個性別
or ethnic or religious subdivision.
某個人種某個宗教團體
We can recognize here a shortcoming
就能意識到一個缺陷
in some circumstances serious
有時還挺嚴重的
in our ability to understand the world.
我們了解這世界的能力非常的不足
Characteristically, we seem compelled to project our own nature
我們似乎本能地會將我們的人性
onto Nature.
強加在自然現象上
"Man in his arrogance
"自傲的人類
thinks himself a great work
認為自己是出自
worthy of the interposition of a deity,"
天神之手的傑作
Darwin wrote telegraphically in his notebook.
達爾文在他筆記本中簡潔地提到
"More humble
"但更謙卑
and I think truer
也更真確的觀點是
to consider him created from animals."
人類是從動物演化而來"
We're Johnny-come-latelies.
我們是新生的物種
We live in the cosmic boondocks.
居住在宇宙的偏壤地帶
We emerged from microbes and muck.
我們源自微小的有機物
Apes are our cousins.
猩猩是我們的近親
Our thoughts and feelings are not fully under our own control.
我們甚制無法完全掌控自己的思想跟感受
And on top of all this,
除此之外
we're making a mess of our planet
我們還將地球搞得烏煙瘴氣
and becoming a danger to ourselves.
自我催殘
The trapdoor beneath our feet swings open.
我們腳下的暗門已被開啟
We find ourselves in bottomless free fall.
正無止盡地向下跌入深淵
If it takes a little myth and ritual
若些許的神話故事與宗教儀式
to get us through a night that seems endless,
能陪我們走過漫漫長夜
who among us cannot sympathize and understand?
任誰都會同情與諒解的
We long to be here for a purpose,
我們渴望找到存在的意義
even though, despite much self-deception,
但經過無數的自我催眠
none is evident.
我們還是無法確定
The significance of our lives and our fragile planet
因此生命的價值還有這脆弱的星球
is then determined only by our own wisdom and courage.
全都繫在我們自己的智慧與勇氣
We are the custodians of life's meaning.
我們是生命意義的看護者
We long for a Parent to care for us,
我們渴望有父母的照料
to forgive us our errors,
寬恕我們的錯誤
to save us from our childish mistakes.
承擔我們幼稚的過失
But knowledge is preferable to ignorance.
但知識是勝過無知的
Better by far
不如就
to embrace the hard truth
面對這殘酷的事實
than a reassuring fable.
忘掉那床邊故事吧
Modern science has been a voyage into the unknown,
現代科學不斷地駛向未知的領域
with a lesson in humility waiting at every stop.
每一個站點都教我們更加地謙卑
Our commonsense intuitions can be mistaken.
我們感觀上的直覺反應總有出錯的時候
Our preferences don't count.
而我們的喜好是微不足道的
We do not live in a privileged reference frame.
我們並非享有特權與殊勝的待遇
If we crave some cosmic purpose,
若真的渴望生命擁有一個宏觀遠大的意義
then let us find ourselves a worthy goal.
那就為我們自己立下個值得追尋的目標吧
then let us find ourselves a worthy goal.
第二集
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=klviSfNMNpE
第一集
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0-mjcNwC1-M
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