The laws of physics should allow us to arrange things molecule by molecule and even atom by atom, and at some point it was inevitable that we would develop a technology that would let us do this.

  • -- Ralph Merkle 拉尔夫·默克尔

物理定律应该允许我们把东西一个分子一个分子地排列,甚至原子一个原子地排列,在某种程度上,我们不可避免地要开发一种技术,让我们做到这一点。

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A potato can grow quite easily on a very small plot of land. With molecular manufacturing, we'll be able to have distributed manufacturing, which will permit manufacturing at the site using technologies that are low-cost and easily available.

马铃薯可以很容易地在一小块土地上生长。通过分子制造,我们将能够实现分布式制造,这将允许现场制造使用低成本且容易获得的技术。

A molecular manufacturing technology will let us build molecular surgical tools, and those tools will, for the first time, let us directly address the problems at the very root level.

分子制造技术将让我们制造分子手术工具,而这些工具将让我们第一次直接从最根本的层面解决问题。

An understanding is perhaps better than an alliance, which may stereotype arrangements which cannot be regarded as permanent in view of the changing circumstances from day to day.

一种谅解也许比一种联盟更好,这种联盟可能使安排定型,但鉴于每天的情况不断变化,这种安排不能被认为是永久的。

In order to figure out how to make atoms compute, you have to learn how to speak their language and to understand how they process information under normal circumstances.

为了弄清楚如何让原子计算,你必须学习如何说原子的语言,并理解它们在正常情况下是如何处理信息的。

We want them to stop the current arrangement, share it with the public and hold hearings.

我们希望他们停止目前的安排,与公众分享,并举行听证会。

A physicist is just an atom's way of looking at itself.

物理学家只是一个原子看待自身的方式。