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I'm a graduate of Princeton, and I just want to say you don't have to go to an Ivy League school to be on the Supreme Court.
我是普林斯顿大学的毕业生,我想说的是,你不一定非要上常春藤盟校才能进入最高法院。
Science is wonderfully equipped to answer the question "How?" but it gets terribly confused when you ask the question "Why?"
科学能够很好地回答“如何”这个问题,但当你问“为什么”这个问题时,它会变得非常困惑。
We go old-school during the summer, like swimming or setting up lemonade stands. I try to teach my kids to make their own fun.
我们在夏天会去上小学,喜欢游泳或者摆摊卖柠檬水。我试着教我的孩子们自己找乐子。
I make money because I have to pay for everything apart from my school fees. My mother even makes me pay my own telephone bill.
我赚钱是因为除了学费,我还得付所有的钱。我妈妈甚至让我自己付电话费。
It is reasonable to expect the doctor to recognize that science may not have all the answers to problems of health and healing.
我们有理由期望医生认识到,科学可能无法对健康和治愈问题提供所有的答案。
In high school, I won a prize for an essay on tuberculosis. When I got through writing the essay, I was sure I had the disease.
在高中时,我因为一篇关于结核病的文章而获奖。当我写完这篇文章时,我确信我得了这种病。
Two things fill the mind with ever new and increasing wonder and awe -- the starry heavens above me and the moral law within me.
有两件事使我的脑海中充满了前所未有的惊奇和敬畏——我头顶的星空和我内心的道德法则。
There is an epidemic right now of girls dumbing themselves down... in middle school because they think it makes them attractive.
现在流行的是女孩子们把自己打扮得很低能……在中学,因为他们认为这使他们有吸引力。
How on earth are you ever going to explain in terms of chemistry and physics so important a biological phenomenon as first love?
你究竟要如何用化学和物理来解释初恋这种重要的生物现象呢?
Science may have found a cure for most evils; but it has found no remedy for the worst of them all -- the apathy of human beings.
科学也许已经找到了一种治疗大多数罪恶的方法;但它并没有找到解决最糟糕问题的办法——人类的冷漠。
There was a time when I was in this private school and the kids were so conservative and close-minded that it was just appalling.
有一段时间,我在这所私立学校,孩子们是如此保守和封闭的思想,这是可怕的。
Science has explained nothing; the more we know the more fantastic the world becomes and the profounder the surrounding darkness.
科学什么也解释不了;我们知道的越多,世界就变得越奇妙,周围的黑暗也就变得越深邃。
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The science of today is the technology of tomorrow.
今天的科学就是明天的技术。
When I investigate and when I discover that the forces of the heavens and the planets are within ourselves, then truly I seem to be living among the gods.
当我调查发现,当我发现天堂和行星的力量就在我们的内心时,我真的好像生活在众神之中。
In science, we must be interested in things, not in persons.
在科学上,我们必须对事物感兴趣,而不是对人。
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。
True terror is to wake up one morning and discover that your high school class is running the country.
真正的恐惧是某天早上醒来发现你的高中班级正在管理这个国家。
A man who has never gone to school may steal from a freight car; but if he has a university education, he may steal the whole railroad.
从未上过学的人可能从货车上偷东西;但是如果他受过大学教育,他可能会偷走整条铁路。