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This does not mean that we must turn back the clock of scientific progress. No one can overlook the wonders that science has wrought for our lives. The automobile will not abdicate in favor of the horse and buggy, or the train in favor of the stagecoach, or the tractor in favor of the hand plow, or the scientific method in favor of ignorance and superstition. But our moral and spiritual "lag" must be redeemed. When scientific power outruns moral power, we end up with guided missiles and misguided men. When we foolishly minimize the internal of our lives and maximize the external, we sign the warrant for our own day of doom.
這并不意味著我們必須倒撥科學進步的時鐘。沒有人能忽視科學給我們生活創造的奇跡。汽車不會讓位給馬拉四輪小車，火車不會讓位給驛站馬車，拖拉機不會讓位給手扶鐵犁，科學方法也不會讓位給無知和迷信，但是我們道德和精神的“滯后”必須予以彌補。當科學的力量超過道德的力量時，我們最終的結果是得到導彈和被誤導的民眾。當我們愚蠢地輕視我們生命的內在而夸大我們的外部世界時，我們就會自取滅亡。
Our hope for creative living in this world house that we have inherited lies in our ability to reestablish the moral ends of our lives in personal character and social justice. Without this spiritual and moral reawakening we shall destroy ourselves in the misuse of our own instruments.
我們希望創造性地生活在這個祖傳的地球村里，這需要我們在個人品德和社會公平方面重建生活的道德目標。沒有這種精神上和道德上的重新覺醒，我們必將在濫用自我研發的器具中毀滅自己。
