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
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
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
