It is not to be forgotten that what we call rational grounds for our beliefs are often extremely irrational attempts to justify our instincts.

  • -- Thomas Henry Huxley 赫胥黎

不可忘记的是,我们所谓的信仰的理性基础,往往是为我们的本能辩护的极度非理性的尝试。

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In a wristwatch, imagine the battery is in the strap and there's a medical sensor in there connected to the internet. If someone is monitoring that, they could phone up if the user has forgotten to take some medication. This could save hundreds of dollars in medical fees later. What's missing? It's a stable battery.

在腕表中,假设电池在表带中,表带中有一个连接到互联网的医疗传感器。如果有人在监控,如果用户忘记吃药,他们可以打电话。这可以节省数百美元的医疗费用。缺失的是什么?这是一个稳定的电池。

Traditional academic science describes human beings as highly developed animals and biological thinking machines. We appear to be Newtonian objects made of atoms, molecules, cells, tissues, and organs.

传统的学术科学把人类描述为高度发达的动物和生物思维机器。我们似乎是由原子、分子、细胞、组织和器官组成的牛顿物体。

The theme for me is love and the lack of it. We all want that and we don't know how to get it, and everything we do is some kind of attempt to capture it for ourselves.

我的主题是爱和爱的缺乏。我们都想要它,但我们不知道如何得到它,我们所做的一切都是试图为自己捕捉它。

The circumstances, including my body and my parents, whom I may curse, are my soul's own choice and I do not understand this because I have forgotten.

环境,包括我的身体和我的父母,我可能会诅咒他们,是我的灵魂自己的选择,我不明白这一点,因为我已经忘记了。

God is an on time God.You may not see what's ahead of you, but with the patience and guidance from God, He will give you the desires of your heart.

上帝是一个准时的上帝。你可能看不到你前面的路,但是在神的耐心和引导下,他会给你心中所想的。

Faith does not need to push the river because faith is able to trust that there is a river. The river is flowing. We are in it.

信心不需要推河,因为信心能够相信有一条河。河水在流动。我们身处其中。

Now I see the secret of making the best person: it is to grow in the open air and to eat and sleep with the earth.

现在我明白了造就最优秀的人的秘诀:那就是在户外生长,与大地同食同睡。

Nothing will ever be attempted if all possible objections must first be overcome.

如果必须首先克服所有可能的反对意见,就不会有任何尝试。

The value of identity of course is that so often with it comes purpose.

当然,身份的价值在于,它常常伴随着目标而来。

Pluripotent cells have the ability to grow into any cell in the body.

多能细胞有能力在体内生长成任何细胞。

I eat as often as I can. I'll eat even if I don't feel like eating.

我尽可能多吃。即使我不想吃,我也要吃。

There will be no distance, if you can beat the time.

如果你能战胜时间,就不会有距离。