We are more thoroughly an enlightened people, with respect to our political interests, than perhaps any other under heaven. Every man among us reads, and is so easy in his circumstances as to have leisure for conversations of improvement and for acquiring information.

  • -- Benjamin Franklin 本杰明富兰克林

就我们的政治利益而言,我们比世界上任何其他民族都更彻底地是一个开明的民族。我们当中的每一个人都读书,在他所处的环境中,读书是如此的容易,以致于有空闲的时间来讨论进步和获取信息。

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We have a way of dealing with information that has sort of personal - personally identifying information in it. But there are legitimate secrets - you know, your records with your doctor; that's a legitimate secret. But we deal with whistleblowers that are coming forward that are really sort of well motivated.

我们有一种处理信息的方法,其中包含了个人识别信息。但也有合法的秘密——你知道,你和医生的记录;这是一个合法的秘密。但是我们要处理那些主动站出来的告密者他们的动机非常好。

But perhaps the rest of us could have separate classes in science appreciation, the wonder of science, scientific ways of thinking, and the history of scientific ideas, rather than laboratory experience.

但是,也许我们其他人可以在科学鉴赏、科学奇迹、科学思维方式和科学思想史等方面单独上课,而不是在实验室里体验。

It is the creator of fiction's point of view; it is the character who interests him. Sometimes he wants to convince the reader that the story he is telling is as interesting as universal history.

它是小说观点的创造者;使他感兴趣的是这个角色。有时他想让读者相信,他讲的故事和世界史一样有趣。

For one human being to love another; that is perhaps the most difficult of all our tasks, the ultimate, the last test and proof, the work for which all other work is but preparation.

一个人爱另一个人;这也许是我们所有任务中最困难的,是最后的、最后的考验和证明,所有其他工作都只是准备工作。

I don't think we have very good records about what they were thinking except, as I pointed out earlier today, that they did invent our political system.

我不认为我们对他们的想法有很好的记录,除了,正如我今天早些时候指出的,他们确实发明了我们的政治体系。

Yeah, I wasn't chosen to be first. I was just chosen to command that flight. Circumstance put me in that particular role. That wasn't planned by anyone.

是的,我不是第一个被选中的。我被选中指挥那次飞行。环境把我置于那个特殊的角色。这不是任何人的计划。

If I walk out onstage and I get a warm, excited response, it makes me feel so confident and happy, and then it's so easy for me up there.

如果我走上台,得到一个温暖、兴奋的回应,这让我感到自信和快乐,然后在台上对我来说很容易。

It's very easy to fall in love when things are great, but the way to really fall in love is when things aren't great.

当事情很伟大的时候坠入爱河是很容易的,但是真正坠入爱河的方法是当事情不伟大的时候。

It's plain hokum. If you can't convince 'em, confuse 'em. It's an old political trick. But this time it won't work.

这是废话。如果你不能说服他们,那就迷惑他们,这是一个古老的政治把戏。但这次不会成功。

Nobody likes a bad sport, no matter what the circumstances are.

没有人喜欢糟糕的运动,无论环境如何。

Information is not knowledge and knowledge is not wisdom.

信息不是知识,知识也不是智慧。

Anything simple always interests me.

任何简单的事情都能引起我的兴趣。