科学の目的は、しばしば言われてきた様に、理解する事ではなく、予見する事です。

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English Translation

The aim of science is, as has often been said, to foresee, not to understand.

Furigana

科学(かがく)の目的(もくてき)は、しばしば言(い)われてきた様(よう)に、理解(りかい)する事(こと)ではなく、予見(よけん)する事(こと)です。

Romanji

Kagaku no mokuteki wa, shibashiba iwaretekita yōni, rikaisuru koto de wa naku, yokensuru koto desu.

Words

科学 (かがく)

science

の (の)

indicates possessive; nominalizes verbs and adjectives; substitutes for "ga" in subordinate phrases; (at sentence-end, falling tone) indicates a confident conclusion; (at sentence-end) indicates emotional emphasis; (at sentence-end, rising tone) indicates question

目的 (もくてき)

purpose; goal; aim; objective; intention

は (は)

topic marker particle; indicates contrast with another option (stated or unstated); adds emphasis

しばしば (しばしば、シバシバ、しぱしぱ、シパシパ)

(blinking) repeatedly

言う (いう、ゆう)

to say; to utter; to declare; to name; to call; to go (e.g. "the alarm went ping"); to make a noise

様に (ように)

in order to (e.g. meet goal); so that; take care (so as); hoping or wishing for something

理解 (りかい)

understanding; comprehension; appreciation; sympathy

事 (こと、こん)

thing; matter; incident; occurrence; event; something serious; trouble; crisis; circumstances; situation; state of affairs; work; business; affair; after an inflectable word, creates a noun phrase indicating something the speaker does not feel close to; nominalizing suffix; pretending to ...; playing make-believe ...; alias; aka; nickname; alternative name; also known as

だ (だ)

be; is; indicates past or completed action; indicates light imperative

無い (ない)

nonexistent; not being (there); unpossessed; unowned; not had; unique; indicates negation, inexperience, unnecessariness or impossibility; not ...; to not be...; to have not ...

予見 (よけん)

foresight; foreknowledge; divination

です (です)

be; is