Much of today's public anxiety about science is the apprehension that we may forever be overlooking the whole by an endless, obsessive preoccupation with the parts.

-- Lewis Thomas 路易斯·汤马斯

当今公众对科学的焦虑，很大程度上是一种担忧，即我们可能永远以对部分事物无休止的、强迫性的关注来忽视整体。

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The earliest sensation at the onset of illness, often preceding the recognition of identifiable symptoms, is apprehension. Something has gone wrong, and a glimpse of mortality shifts somewhere deep in the mind. It is the most ancient of our fears.

在疾病开始时的最早的感觉，通常是在识别出可识别的症状之前，是恐惧。有些地方出了问题，死亡的一瞥在脑海深处的某个地方发生了变化。这是我们最古老的恐惧。

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Our passionate preoccupation with the sky, the stars, and a God somewhere in outer space is a homing impulse. We are drawn back to where we came from.

我们对天空、星星和外太空某个地方的神充满激情的专注是一种归航的冲动。我们被拉回到了原点。

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He played the King as though under momentary apprehension that someone else was about to play the ace.

他扮演国王的时候，好像有一瞬间担心别人会出王牌。

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