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This also shows how people didn't want to search for their own understanding or educate themselves.
這也表明了人們有多么不想找尋他們自己的理解，多么不想讓自己受教育。
And this is still often true today.
而且現今這一點常常也是事實。
People feel that if someone important and respected says that something is right, then it must be so.
人們覺得，如果某個受人敬仰的重要人物認為某事是對的，那它就一定是對的。
But even though Aristotle was a great man
但是，盡管亞里斯多德是一個偉人，
who inspired many great scientists and philosophers after him, he was wrong at times.
他激勵了許多隨后的偉大科學家和哲學家，但他有時也會錯。
And Galilei too made mistakes.
伽利略也犯過錯誤。
He is now known as the father of astronomy
現在大家都知道他是天文學之父，
but he believed that the earth moved round the sun in a perfect circle. He was wrong.
但是他也曾相信地球呈精確的圓形圍繞太陽運動。他也錯了。
Therefore our understanding of the world around us is constantly growing and changing.
因此，我們對周圍世界的理解是不停增長、不停改變的。
In other words, we learn more every day and none of us can ever sit back and say, "We know it all".
換句話說，我們一天比一天學得多；沒有人能什么都不做就說，“我們全都知道”。
We need to thank the great men of the past for the wisdom
我們需要感謝過去的偉人的智慧，
to know that we don't know it all and probably never will,
他們知道我們不完全了解，而且可能永遠都不會完全了解。
for that would mean a world without questions.
因為那就意味著這個世界沒有了疑問。
So much of our knowledge and understanding of the world today is due to people like Bacon and Galilei,
我們今天這么多的知識和對世界的了解都要歸功于像培根和伽利略這樣的人，
who were brave enough to step out from the shadows of conventional thought
他們勇敢地從守舊思想的陰影中站出來，
in order to find the kingdom of knowledge that today's civilisation is built upon.
為了找到建立現代文明的根基—知識王國。
These men knew that knowledge and understanding are things to fight for;
這些人知道知識和理解是需要力爭的；
more vital to a man, and more beneficial to mankind, some might say, than all the money in the world.
有人可能會說，相比世界上所有的錢財，知識和理解對個人來說更重要，對人類來說更有益。
"All truths are easy to understand once they are discovered;
“所有的真理一旦被發現就很容易理解；
the point is to discover them." - Galileo Galilei (1564-1642)
關鍵就在于發現他們。”—伽利略·伽利萊（1564-1642）
