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奥里森·斯威特·马登:向前进·摘录 118
奥里森·斯威特·马登《向前进》· Pushing to the Front · 领导
What chance had Galileo to win renown in physics or astronomy, when his parents compelled him to go to a medical school? Yet while Venice slept, he stood in the tower of St. Mark's Cathedral and discovered the satellites of Jupiter and the phases of Venus, through a telescope made with his own hands. When compelled on bended knee to publicly renounce his heretical doctrine that the earth moves around the sun, all the terrors of the Inquisition could not keep this feeble man of threescore years and ten from muttering to himself, "Yet it does move." When thrown into prison, so great was his eagerness for scientific research that he proved by a straws in his cell that a hollow tube is relatively much stronger than a solid rod of the same size. Even when totally blind, he kept constantly at work.
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定位:Excerpt 118 · 核对日期:2026-10-19 · 核验:短摘录
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伽利略被父母逼着学医,看起来没机会在物理或天文上出名。但他趁威尼斯沉睡时,站在圣马可教堂塔上,用自制的望远镜发现木星卫星和金星相位。他被逼跪着公开放弃“地球绕太阳转”的说法,可七十岁的他仍低声说“但它确实在动”。被关进监狱,他仍用牢房里的稻草证明空心管比同尺寸实心棒相对更结实。即使全盲,他也坚持工作。这说明,外部强制和惩罚不能消灭真正的求知欲。做法是:在限制中找能做的研究,把好奇心放在第一位。今天我们可以做的,是在不被允许的领域之外,找到仍能动手探索的小问题。
上下文
马登在《奋力向前》中讲述伽利略在宗教裁判所压迫下坚持科学探索的故事。
今日一问
在你不被支持的方向上,有没有一个小问题仍可以动手探索?
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