From birth, man carries the weight of gravity on his shoulders. He is bolted to earth. But man has only to sink beneath the surface and he is free.

  • -- Jacques Yves Cousteau 雅克·伊夫·库斯托

人类从出生起就肩负着地球引力的重任。他被拴在地上。但是人只要沉到水里,他就自由了。

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All men dream, but not equally. Those who dream by night in the dusty recesses of their minds, wake in the day to find that it was vanity: but the dreamers of the day are dangerous men, for they may act on their dreams with open eyes, to make them possible.

人人都有梦想,但并非人人都一样。那些夜间在尘封的心灵深处做梦的人,白天醒来却发现那是虚妄的;但是白天做梦的人是危险的,因为他们可能睁大眼睛去实现他们的梦,使之成为可能。

The older generation had greater respect for land than science. But we live in an age when science, more than soil, has become the provider of growth and abundance. Living just on the land creates loneliness in an age of globality.

老一辈人对土地的尊重超过了对科学的尊重。但我们生活在这样一个时代:科学,而不是土壤,已经成为增长和丰富的提供者。在全球化时代,仅仅生活在陆地上就会造成孤独。

There is no other way of guarding oneself against flattery than by letting men understand that they will not offend you by speaking the truth; but when everyone can tell you the truth, you lose their respect.

除了让男人知道他们说真话不会冒犯你,别无他法使自己免受奉承;但是当每个人都能告诉你真相时,你就失去了他们的尊重。

Someday, after mastering the winds, the waves, the tides and gravity, we shall harness for God the energies of love, and then, for a second time in the history of the world, man will have discovered fire.

有一天,在掌握了风、浪、潮汐和重力之后,我们将为上帝驾驭爱的能量,然后,人类将在世界历史上第二次发现火。

Later, I could take something off my slider and I could make my fastball sink, so I really had four pitches.

后来,我可以从我的滑块上取下一些东西,我可以让我的快速球下沉,所以我真的有四个球。

Science consists exactly of those forms of knowledge that can be verified and duplicated by anybody.

科学正是由那些任何人都可以验证和复制的知识构成的。

You might expect gravity would slow it down, but it's just expanding faster and faster.

你可能认为重力会让它慢下来,但它只是膨胀得越来越快。

He that is once at sea, must either sail or sink.

曾经在海上的人,要么航行,要么沉没。