So why is it then that outside medical and scientific circles, almost nobody has heard that story?

那么为什么在医疗和科技圈以外，几乎没有人听说过这个故事呢？

These propositions, which are familiar enough to scientific men, are apt to surprise those who are outside of scientific circles.

这些对于科学界人士来说已经足够熟悉的命题， 很容易让科学界以外的人感到惊讶。

The observation caused a commotion in scientific circles, because it seemed to fly in the face of everything that astrophysicists thought they knew about galaxy formation.

这个观察结果在科学圈掀起了轩然大波——因为这似乎完全违背了科学家们原以为了解的有关星系形成的一切知识。

It was through research by prominent figures like Sims that the idea that Black people didn't feel pain became accepted within scientific circles.

博斯：正是通过像西姆斯这样的杰出人物的研究，黑人感觉不到疼痛的想法才被科学界所接受。

You can afford to be more freely committed.However faith in an idea is frowned upon in scientific circles, but no new concept or idea, or discovery, ever came unless there was first faith that it indeed existed.

你可以担得起更自由的承诺。然而，在科学界，对一个理念抱持信心，是不以为然的，但是，除非首先相信它确实存在，否则任何新的概念，或想法，或发现都不会出现。