他2004年写的书,悲观的取名为我们最后的一小时,分析了人类在空前且不断加速的科学影响下的21世纪面临的种种威胁。
His 2004 book, ominously titled our Final Hour, catalogues the threats facing the human race in a 21st century dominated by unprecedented and accelerating scientific change.
科学知识可能只是对悲观主义的一种恐惧和借口?是针对真理的微妙的自卫方式?
Is scientific scholarship perhaps only a fear and an excuse in the face of pessimism, a delicate self-defence against-the Truth?
我非常欣赏科学家们的创造力,他们能测试八哥的乐观和悲观,测试灌丛鸦和草甸田鼠的情景记忆,测试老鼠的欢乐。
I really enjoy the ingenuity of scientists testing optimism and pessimism in starlings, episodic memory in scrub jays and meadow voles, joy in rats.
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