1. The enemy of artists like Magritte is nave realismthe dogged assumption that the human sensory apparatus accurately records the one and only real world, of which the human brain can make but one accurate model.
難句類型：同位語
難詞註解：naive a. 天真的; 輕信的
apparatus n.器械，器具
參考譯文：馬格利特是藝術家的敵人，他是單純的現實主義者，固執地認爲人的感官精確地反映唯一的現實世界，人腦就是這其中一個準確的例子。
2. Astronomers understand that each act of observationphotographing a galaxy. taking an ultraviolet spectrum of an exploding starextracts but a small piece of the whole, and that a montage of many such images is still only a representation, a painting if you will.
難句類型：並列成分
參考譯文：天文學家明白，每一次的觀察行動給星系拍照，分析爆炸星球的`紫外線的光譜，引申出的只是整體的一小部分，如果你相信，由許多如此形象組成的蒙太奇只是一個代表，一幅畫。
3. That no one theory of the universe can deservedly gain permanent predominance does not mean that all theories are equally valid.