Rocket science has been mythologized all out of proportion to its true difficulty.

  • -- John D. Carmack 约翰·卡马克

火箭科学一直被神话化,与其真正的困难完全不成比例。

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Whether one sees the world as God's creation or as a secular mystery that science is on the way to figuring out, there is no denying the beauty and majesty of everything from mountain ranges, deserts, and rain forests to the exquisite details in the design of an ordinary mosquito.

无论一个人把世界看作是上帝的创造,还是科学正在探索的一个世俗的谜,从山脉、沙漠、雨林到普通蚊子设计的精美细节,一切都是美丽和威严的,这是不可否认的。

I think the producers, for the most part, don't want to see prices skyrocket because that will only create problems for them down the road and would also be a, you know, would be a very serious shock for a world economy that can't afford serious shocks right now.

我认为,在很大程度上,生产者不希望看到价格飞涨,因为这只会给他们今后带来问题,而且对目前承受不起严重冲击的世界经济来说,这将是一个非常严重的冲击。

Many of us are alarmed at the skyrocketing cost of medical care, including patients, who are the consumers. However, medical malpractice is not the reason for these increasing costs.

我们许多人都对医疗费用的飞涨感到震惊,包括病人,他们是消费者。然而,医疗事故并不是这些费用增加的原因。

A writer should get as much education as possible, but just going to school is not enough; if it were, all owners of doctorates would be inspired writers.

一个作家应该得到尽可能多的教育,但仅仅上学是不够的;如果是这样,那么所有拥有博士学位的人都会受到作家的启发。

The difficulty of looking at a system like natural selection if you have any sort of moral sense yourself, is almost what makes it beautiful.

如果你自己有某种道德感,那么观察像自然选择这样的系统的困难,几乎就是让它变得美丽的原因。

True strength is being able to hold it together when no one would blame you for completely falling apart.

真正的力量是当没有人会因为你彻底崩溃而责备你的时候,你能坚持住。

Today you are you, that is truer than true. There is no one alive who is youer than you!

今天的你就是你,这是千真万确的。没有一个活着的人比你更像你!

Every difficulty slurred over will be a ghost to disturb your repose later on.

每一个含糊不清的困难都将成为日后打扰你休息的幽灵。

We must not misinterpret our discomforts into dilemmas.

我们决不能把我们的不适误解成困境。

We die in proportion to the words we fling around us.

我们的死亡与我们周围的言语成正比。