One could not be a successful scientist without realizing that, in contrast to the popular conception supported by newspapers and mothers of scientists, a goodly number of scientists are not only narrow-minded and dull, but also just stupid.

  • -- James D. Watson 沃森

一个成功的科学家不可能不认识到,与报纸和科学家母亲所支持的流行观念相反,有相当数量的科学家不仅心胸狭窄、沉闷,而且愚蠢。

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I think it's going to deliver on the promises we've said it's going to and it is going to be the most successful product ever to come into the handheld environment, and it just happens to have a number of different functions.

我认为它将实现我们所说的承诺,它将是有史以来进入手持环境的最成功的产品,它恰好有许多不同的功能。

Fathers and mothers have lost the idea that the highest aspiration they might have for their children is for them to be wise... specialized competence and success are all that they can imagine.

父亲和母亲们已经失去了这样一种观念,那就是他们对孩子的最高期望就是让他们变得聪明……他们所能想象的只有专业能力和成功。

There are successful scholars, public-spirited scholars, upright scholars, cautious scholars, and those who are merely petty men.

有成功的学者,有热心公益的学者,有正直的学者,有谨慎的学者,也有心胸狭窄的学者。

Advice is sometimes transmitted more successfully through a joke than grave teaching.

有时候,通过笑话比严肃的教导更能成功地传达建议。

Not so the scientist. The very essence of his life is the service of truth.

但这位科学家并非如此。他生命的本质是为真理服务。

Newspapers are born free and everywhere are in chains.

报纸生来就是免费的,到处都被束缚着。

Random chance plays a huge part in everybody's life.

随机机会在每个人的生活中都扮演着重要的角色。

I'm a medical doctor and a biomedical scientist.

我是一名医生和生物医学科学家。

I keep reading between the lies.

我一直在谎言之间阅读。