A COLLECTION OF GOOD WORDS
学校
School
My dad was dean of fine arts at the university. I was casting bronzes in the school foundry. I was using the university as a playground.
我爸爸是大学美术系主任。我在学校的铸造厂铸造青铜。我把这所大学用作操场。
I went to school for special education. I always assumed when I had the opportunity I would love to try and help kids with disabilities.
我去学校接受特殊教育。我总是认为，当我有机会，我愿意尝试帮助残疾儿童。
Well, I didn't really admit that I anywhere until my daughter started school and I knew I couldn't pull up and leave when I felt like it.
直到我女儿开始上学，我才承认我去过任何地方，我知道我不能在我想离开的时候停下车离开。
What makes a child gifted and talented may not always be good grades in school, but a different way of looking at the world and learning.
一个孩子之所以有天赋，并不一定是因为他在学校的成绩好，而是因为他看待世界和学习的方式不同。
Science is built up of facts, as a house is with stones. But a collection of facts is no more a science than a heap of stones is a house.
科学是建立在事实之上的，正如房子是用石头砌成的一样。但是收集事实并不是一门科学，正如一堆石头并不是一所房子一样。
We go to school to learn to work hard for money. I write books and create products that teach people how to have money work hard for them.
我们上学是为了学习为了钱而努力工作。我写书，创造产品，教人们如何让钱为他们努力工作。
In my school, people liked the gym teachers because they were the football or soccer coaches. But look, if they're cool, they get respect.
在我的学校，人们喜欢体育老师，因为他们是足球或足球教练。但如果他们很酷，他们就会得到尊重。
Living modestly in a suburban neighborhood while trying to support four children through private school is not extravagant or living large.
住在郊区，同时还要努力供四个孩子上私立学校，这样的生活既不奢侈也不奢侈。
No delusion is greater than the notion that method and industry can make up for lack of mother-wit, either in science or in practical life.
无论在科学上还是在实际生活中，没有什么比认为方法和勤奋可以弥补缺乏天赋的观念更大的错觉了。
The doctor has been taught to be interested not in health but in disease. What the public is taught is that health is the cure for disease.
医生被教导对疾病而不是健康感兴趣。公众被教导的是健康是疾病的治愈之道。
It is also a good rule not to put overmuch confidence in the observational results that are put forward until they are confirmed by theory.
在理论得到证实之前，不要对所提出的观测结果过于自信，这也是一个好规则。
I remember as a kid having the offer of a scholarship, that it was going to be like going to Mars, and deciding to stay in my public school.
我记得当我还是个孩子的时候，我得到了一份奖学金，就像去火星一样，我决定留在我的公立学校。
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沿着这个主题，再读几句。
Science has sometimes been said to be opposed to faith, and inconsistent with it. But all science, in fact, rests on a basis of faith, for it assumes the permanence and uniformity of natural laws - a thing which can never be demonstrated.
科学有时被说成是与信仰对立的，而且与信仰不一致。但事实上，所有的科学都建立在信仰的基础上，因为它假定自然规律的持久性和统一性——这是永远无法证明的。
Every great advance in science has issued from a new audacity of the imagination.
科学上的每一个重大进步都来自于一种新的大胆的想象。
Every science begins as philosophy and ends as art.
每一门科学都以哲学开始，以艺术结束。
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。
The scientist is motivated primarily by curiosity and a desire for truth.
科学家的动机主要是好奇心和对真理的渴望。
I think you can go to school at any age.
我认为你可以在任何年龄上学。