One of the reasons for its success is that science has a built-in, error-correcting machinery at its very heart. Some may consider this an overbroad … - Carl Sagan

When we are self-indulgent and uncritical, when we confuse hopes and facts, we slide into pseudoscience and superstition.

[...] every time we excercise self-criticism, every time we test our ideas against the outside world, we are doing science. When we are self-indulgent and uncritical, when we confuse hopes and facts, we slide into pseudoscience and superstition.

we completely decrypt it, how good could the translation be? You know the opinion of Cervantes? He said that reading a translation is like examining the back of a piece of tapestry.

There is much that science doesn't understand, many mysteries still to be resolved. In a Universe tens of billions of light-years across and some ten or fifteen billion years old, this may be the case forever. We are constantly stumbling on new surprises

إننا وافدون جدد، ونعيش في الأرياف الكونية، لقد نشأنا من الميكروبات والوحل. القردة أعمامنا وأفكارنا ومشاعرنا ليست تحت سيطرتنا بالكامل، وقد توجد كائنات أذكى منا وتختلف عنا تماماً وعلى رأس ذلك كله، فإننا نحيل كوكبنا إلى حالة من الفوضى ونصبح مصدر خطر على أنفسنا.