第一遍读的时候想起了高中的物理——我的短暂的三年的理科生活（大学走上了英专的不归路），对今后的生活却一直有着深刻的影响。as a learner，我觉得一些品质是始终不会变的。

perpetual: continuing for a long period of time without interruption

We lived for years in a perpetual state of fear.

empirical :based on experiments or experience rather than ideas or theories

rely on empirical evidence

peer review

Peer review is the evaluation of work by one or more people of similar competence to the producers of the work (peers). It constitutes a form of self-regulation by qualified members of a profession within the relevant field.

deflection: a sudden change in the direction that sth is moving in, usually after it has hit sth;

The goal was scored with a deflection off the goalkeeper.

geo•centr•ic: with the earth as the centre

geocentric Universe

phlogiston theory 燃素学说

cathode ray 阴极射线

vacuum pump 真空泵

rest on sth: to be based on sth

That prediction rested on decades of theoratical on the structure of the atom, going back to Rutherford and the work of Danish physicist……

pythagoras theorem 毕达哥拉斯定理；勾股定理

reason: decide by reasoning; draw or come to a conclusion

We reasoned that it was cheaper to rent than to buy a house.

Socratic n.苏格拉底的信徒；adj.苏格拉底（哲学）的

supernova 超新星 a star that suddenly bacomes much brighter bacause it is exploding

alchemy 点金术；炼金

astrolabe 星盘

harbour: to contain sth and allow it to develop

Your dishcloth can harbour many germs.

chromosome 染色体

genome 基因组

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pick holes in the argument

Every experiment that gives predicted answers is supporting evidence, but one experiment that fails may an entire theory crashing down.

This marked the birth of chemistry as a science, as distinct from the mystical alchemy from which it arose.

a host of new gases

open up a new field of science

propose the idea of atomic weights

lay out

Albert Einstein proposed his theory of relativity, shaking classical physics and ending the idea of an absolute time and space.

leap-frogging ideas

take root

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拓展：

the Large Hadron Collider (LHC)大型强子对撞机

is the world's largest and most powerful particle collider, most complex experimental facility ever built, and the largest single machine in the world. It was built by the European Organization for Nuclear Research (CERN).

Alhazen, an Arab Muslim scientist, mathematician, astronomer, and philosopher, made significant contributions to the principles of optics, astronomy, mathematics and visual perception.

Thales of  Miletus, was a pre-Socratic Greek/Phoenician philosopher, mathematician and astronomer from Miletus in Asia Minor. one of Seven Sages of Greece

Xenophanes  of Colophon was a Greek philosopher, theologian, poet, and social and religious critic.

thermodynamics 热力学

paleontoligy 古生物学