This possibility bothered me as I thought it was not advisable to remain in one academic environment, and the long dark winters in Edinburgh could be rather dismal.

  • -- Paul Nurse 纳斯

这种可能性让我感到困扰,因为我认为留在一个学术环境是不可取的,爱丁堡漫长而黑暗的冬天可能会相当沉闷。

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We've got to search back to our last known safe landmark. I can't say exactly where, but I think it's back there at the start of the Industrial Revolution, we began applying energy in vast amounts to tools with which we began tearing the environment apart.

我们必须回到我们最后知道的安全地标。我不能确切地说在哪里,但我认为在工业革命开始的时候,我们开始把大量的能源投入到工具中,我们开始用这些工具破坏环境。

Birth is the sudden opening of a window, through which you look out upon a stupendous prospect. For what has happened? A miracle. You have exchanged nothing for the possibility of everything.

出生是一扇窗户的突然打开,透过它你可以看到一个惊人的前景。发生了什么事?一个奇迹。你没有拿任何东西来交换一切的可能性。

A society that thinks the choice between ways of living is just a choice between equally eligible "lifestyles" turns universities into academic cafeterias offering junk food for the mind.

如果一个社会认为在两种生活方式之间做出选择只是在同样符合条件的“生活方式”之间做出选择,那么它就会把大学变成学术自助餐厅,为思想提供垃圾食品。

An intense anticipation itself transforms possibility into reality; our desires being often but precursors of the things which we are capable of performing.

强烈的期待本身就能把可能性变成现实;我们的欲望往往只是我们能够完成的事情的前驱。

A lot of times, you feel like you're walking on eggshells in a creative environment, because everyone's having to watch out for egos so much of the time.

很多时候,你觉得自己在一个创造性的环境中如履薄冰,因为每个人在很多时候都要小心自负。

My father was an academic, an eccentric. He was a lecturer

我父亲是个学者,是个怪人。他是一位讲师