Name: 卡爾-薩根"我不想相信。我想知道。"| 薩沙-薩根 (Carl Sagan: "I don’t want to believe. I want to know." | Sasha Sagan)
Uploaded: 2022-11-16T18:25:34.000Z
Duration: 5 min 45 s

- Science and technology have come a long way

- 科學和技術已經走過了漫長的道路

in making it possible  for us to do things

程度副詞

that would've seemed like magic tricks not too long ago-

這在不久前似乎還像魔術一樣------。

For most of history, that seemed absolutely impossible.

在歷史上的大部分時間裡，這似乎是絕對不可能的。

We're stuck here on the ground, looking up.

我們被困在這裡的地面上，往上看。

Think of how many gods and mythical figures

想一想，有多少神靈和神話人物

We wanted it so bad, and now we've managed to do it.

我們非常希望如此，而現在我們已經成功做到了。

The oldest living person in the world was alive

when the Wright brothers flew the first flight at Kitty Hawk

萊特兄弟在基蒂霍克進行首次飛行時

而現在我們在火星上有一架直升飛機。

The more we understand ourselves and our Universe,

我們越是瞭解自己和我們的宇宙。

called "For Small  Creatures Such as We."

稱為 "為了像我們這樣的小生物"。

I was brought up with a very scientific worldview.

我是在一個非常科學的世界觀下長大的。

我的父親是天文學家卡爾-薩根。

and he and my mom, writer-producer Ann Druyan,

以及他和我媽媽，作家-製片人安-德魯伊恩。

fell in love working on the Voyager Record,

在《旅行者記錄》的工作中，我愛上了它。

that is a compilation of the sounds of life on Earth.

這是對地球上生命的聲音的彙編。

Greetings and human languages, and one whale language.

問候語和人類語言，以及一種鯨魚語言。

These two records are on the Voyager Spacecraft,

這兩個記錄是在旅行者號航天器上。

and they have a shelf life of a billion years.

And then my parents wrote essays and books,

about the awe and wonder that we can find in the Universe.

關於我們可以在宇宙中找到的敬畏和奇蹟。

can be presented with enthusiasm and wonder and awe

可以用熱情、驚奇和敬畏的態度來呈現

that makes people feel  welcome in reveling

in how astonishing things are in the natural world,

在自然界中的事物是多麼令人驚奇。

we have made the most astonishing and  unexpected discoveries

我們已經取得了最令人驚訝和意外的發現

about the cosmos and  our place within it.'

關於宇宙和我們在其中的位置。

from my parents is this idea of tolerating ambiguity.

從我父母那裡得到的是這種容忍模糊性的想法。

有時，當我們編造一個答案時。

it's just a placeholder because we're so bad

這只是一個佔位符，因為我們是如此糟糕。

在坐的時候，有一個空的問號。

on sitting with the discomfort of not knowing.

Tolerating ambiguity, waiting until you have evidence,

容忍模稜兩可，等到有了證據再來。

knowing that sometimes the evidence will change,

is central to any scientific advancement.

My dad, one of the things he was most curious about

我的父親，他最好奇的一件事就是

- 'Everyone wants to know how unique the human species are.

- '每個人都想知道人類是多麼獨特。

How is it possible that in a galaxy of 400 billion stars

在一個擁有4000億顆恆星的星系中，怎麼可能有

He wanted to find out what was really going on.

他想弄清楚到底發生了什麼事。

reveals how we feel about the unanswered great mysteries

揭示了我們對未解答的巨大謎團的感受

And we have struggled for eons with this problem.

我們已經在這個問題上掙扎了好幾個世紀。

I think about "A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court":

我想到了《康涅狄格州的美國佬在亞瑟王的法庭》。

an eclipse was terrifying all over the world.

還有什麼能比這更讓人恐懼的呢？

And now we know when they're coming, and we know it's safe.

而現在我們知道他們什麼時候來，我們知道它是安全的。

that we've always longed for through science.

我們一直渴望通過科學來實現的。

對我們這個物種來說，並不是那麼久遠。

so much in life, even the most mundane, ordinary things

生活中的許多事情，即使是最平凡、最普通的事情也是如此

And I think that's true for so much of science,

我認為這對很多科學來說都是真實的。

and so much of the reality of our Universe.

And the more we understand ourselves and our planet,

而且我們越是瞭解自己和我們的星球。

我父親感到一種巨大的、快樂的驚奇

about the Universe from his earliest childhood.

從他最早的童年開始，他就對宇宙產生了興趣。

If he had been born a few hundred years earlier,

it would've been a lot harder for him to get the answers

他要想得到答案就會難上加難了。

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