A COLLECTION OF GOOD WORDS
学校
School
Most of my contemporaries at school entered the World of Business, the logical destiny of bores.
我在学校的大多数同龄人都进入了商界，这是无聊之辈合乎逻辑的命运。
But first I want to get my master's degree at Columbia's School of International Public Affairs.
但首先我想在哥伦比亚大学国际公共事务学院获得硕士学位。
There was no "before" the beginning of our universe, because once upon a time there was no time.
我们的宇宙没有“以前”的开始，因为从前没有时间。
By not going to school I learned that the world is a beautiful place and needs to be discovered.
通过不上学，我了解到世界是一个美丽的地方，需要被发现。
Just like my father, I've always loved education. In school I was a member of the honor society.
就像我的父亲一样，我一直热爱教育。在学校我是荣誉社团的成员。
One was never taught how to begin at drama school. But all it required was one intake of breath.
一个人从来没有在戏剧学校学过如何开始。但它所需要的只是一次呼吸。
When I got outta High School I was driving a truck. I was just a poor boy from Memphis, Memphis.
高中毕业时，我开着一辆卡车。我只是一个来自孟菲斯的穷孩子。
I was a kid who got picked on in school and got beat up by popular, athletic soccer-type people.
我是一个在学校被欺负的孩子，被受欢迎的，喜欢运动的足球类型的人打。
School is practice for the future, and practice makes perfect and nobody's perfect so why bother.
学校是为未来而生的，熟能生巧，没有人是完美的，所以何必麻烦。
For me, I've always taken being on a set as my school, because I've been working since I was ten.
对我来说，我一直把拍戏当成我的学校，因为我从十岁就开始工作了。
Then, when I was a senior in high school, I was kind of bereft and she put me in an acting class.
然后，当我上高中四年级的时候，我有点失魂落魄，她把我送进了一个表演班。
Science requires an engagement with the world, a live encounter between the knower and the known.
科学需要与世界的接触，知识分子与知识分子之间的真实接触。
KEEP EXPLORING
沿着这个主题，再读几句。
If you're going to school, you should do what you enjoy.
如果你要去上学，你应该做你喜欢做的事。
Our parents were very strict. Not in a brutal or awful way, but there were definite rules, such as after six on a school night you didn't go out, and at weekends you had to be home by a certain time. It wasn't particularly sheltered, but we were well brought-up.
我们的父母非常严格。不是以一种残忍或可怕的方式，而是有明确的规则，比如在学校晚上六点以后你不出去，周末你必须在某个时间回家。这里没有特别的庇护，但我们都是受过良好教育的。
If the facts don't fit the theory, change the facts.
如果事实与理论不符，那就改变事实。
I do not know what I may appear to the world, but to myself I seem to have been only a boy playing on the sea-shore, and diverting myself in now and then finding a smoother pebble or a prettier shell than ordinary, whilst the great ocean of truth lay all undiscovered before me.
我不知道我似乎世界,但我对自己似乎一直只是一个在海边嬉戏的孩子,并将自己在现在,然后找到一个光滑的鹅卵石或一个漂亮的外壳比普通,而在我面前的伟大的真理的海洋熟视无睹。
The science of today is the technology of tomorrow.
今天的科学就是明天的技术。