They decided that unpaid leave could only be granted through the decision of a council that consisted almost entirely of scientists who couldn't understand my reasons for wanting to go so. They said no, no unpaid. So I immediately resigned.

  • -- George Woodcock 乔治·伍德科克

他们决定,无薪休假只能通过一个委员会的决定获得批准,这个委员会几乎全部由科学家组成,他们无法理解我想要休假的原因。他们说没有,没有报酬。所以我立刻辞职了。

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Although reading the classics in Latin in school may be not as fulfilling as it would be at a more mature age, few scientists can afford the time for such diversion later in life.

虽然在学校里读拉丁文经典可能不如在更成熟的时候那么令人满足,但很少有科学家能在以后的生活中有时间做这样的消遣。

The ordinary scientific man is strictly a sentimentalist. He is a sentimentalist in this essential sense, that he is soaked and swept away by mere associations.

一般的科学家严格来说是个感情用事的人。他是一个多愁善感的人,从这个本质上说,他只是被一些简单的联想浸透了,并被冲走了。