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When I find myself in the company of scientists, I feel like a shabby curate who has strayed by mistake into a room full of dukes.
当我发现自己和科学家们在一起时，我觉得自己就像一个衣衫褴褛的副牧师，误入一间满是公爵的房间。
It is a good morning exercise for a research scientist to discard a pet hypothesis every day before breakfast. It keeps him young.
对于一位从事研究的科学家来说，每天早餐前抛弃一个宠物假设是一项很好的晨练。这让他保持年轻。
My first show was when I was a high school freshman, but it was at the junior class dance. My older friend and bandmate booked it.
我的第一次演出是在我高一的时候，但那是在初中班级的舞会上。我的老朋友和乐队成员预定了。
Whence come I and whither go I? That is the great unfathomable question, the same for every one of us. Science has no answer to it.
我从那里来，往那里去。这是一个深不可测的大问题，对我们每个人都是一样的。科学对此没有答案。
I entered the work force cleaning breast pumps at a pharmacy! It was a part-time gig while I was at school... no interview required.
我在一家药店工作，负责清洗吸乳器!那是我上学时的一份兼职工作。不需要面试。
I was going to middle school in Berkley, and I did not fit in at all. Like a lot of kids, I found theater to be a good place for me.
当时我在伯克利上中学，我完全不适应那里的环境。像很多孩子一样，我发现剧院对我来说是个好地方。
But yeah, I played bass guitar in high school and in college and then I actually fractured my thumb, so my bass career went bye-bye.
但是，我在高中和大学的时候弹过低音吉他，后来我的大拇指骨折了，所以我的低音生涯就此结束了。
What is a scientist after all? It is a curious man looking through a keyhole, the keyhole of nature, trying to know what's going on.
科学家到底是什么?这是一个好奇的人透过钥匙孔，大自然的钥匙孔，试图知道发生了什么。
I didn't have nothin' going for me... school, home... until I found something I loved, which was music, and that changed everything.
我没有什么可以帮我的…学校,家庭……直到我找到了我喜欢的东西，那就是音乐，它改变了一切。
I have two extraordinary daughters, who, I can say proudly, are doing very well in school and in piano. Daughters are a father's joy.
我有两个非常棒的女儿，我可以自豪地说，她们在学校和钢琴方面都做得很好。女儿是父亲的快乐。
I hate facts. I always say the chief end of man is to form general propositions - adding that no general proposition is worth a damn.
我讨厌的事实。我总是说，人的主要目的是形成普遍的命题——并补充说，没有一个普遍的命题是一文不值的。
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。
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Nothing in the universe can travel at the speed of light, they say, forgetful of the shadow's speed.
他们说，宇宙中没有任何东西能以光速旅行，他们忘记了影子的速度。
Science is simply common sense at its best, that is, rigidly accurate in observation, and merciless to fallacy in logic.
科学充其量不过是常识，也就是说，在观察上严格准确，在逻辑上对谬误毫不留情。
Science is organized common sense where many a beautiful theory was killed by an ugly fact.
科学是有组织的常识，许多美好的理论都被丑陋的事实扼杀了。
Month after month, Wizard Academy equips people who want to make a difference. This is why journalists and scientists and artists and educators and business owners and advertising professionals and ministers are attracted to our little school.
一个月又一个月，巫师学院为那些想有所作为的人提供装备。这就是为什么记者、科学家、艺术家、教育家、企业主、广告专业人士和部长们都被我们的小学校所吸引。
There is no logical way to the discovery of these elemental laws. There is only the way of intuition, which is helped by a feeling for the order lying behind the appearance.
发现这些基本定律没有逻辑的方法。只有一种直觉的方法，那就是感觉表象背后的秩序。
We have also arranged things so that almost no one understands science and technology. This is a prescription for disaster. We might get away with it for a while, but sooner or later this combustible mixture of ignorance and power is going to blow up in our faces.
我们还把事情安排得几乎没有人了解科学和技术。这是灾难的处方。我们可能会侥幸逃脱一段时间，但这种无知和权力的可燃混合物迟早会在我们的脸上爆炸。