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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Take one flower that you like and get lots of them. And don't try to 'arrange' them. It's surprisingly hard to do a flower arrangement the way a florist does one. Instead, bunch them all together or put them in a series of small vases all down the table.

拿一朵你喜欢的花,然后买很多。不要试图“安排”他们。要像花商那样插花是非常困难的。相反,把它们都堆在一起或放在桌子上的一系列小花瓶里。

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。

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。

If atoms are not alive and humans are made up of atoms, then humans are not alive.

如果原子不是活着的,而人类是由原子组成的,那么人类就不是活着的。