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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Just the fact that I've lived more, and I'm not concerned about when I am going to get my next job anymore. This business is free-lance and it's not a steady job. Younger, I would have been more preoccupied with myself.

我活得更久了，我不再担心什么时候能找到下一份工作。这个行业是自由的，不是一份稳定的工作。年轻的时候，我会更专注于自己。

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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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There are more things to alarm us than to harm us, and we suffer more often in apprehension than reality.

让我们惊慌的事情比伤害我们的事情要多，我们在忧虑中遭受的痛苦比在现实中遭受的痛苦还要多。

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