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To pursue science is not to disparage the things of the spirit. In fact, to pursue science rightly is to furnish the framework on which the spirit may rise.
追求科学并不是贬低精神的东西。事实上,正确地追求科学就是为精神的兴起提供一个框架。
I was playing rugby and the other games English school children do, and there was an event in which races were run, and I won these by a considerable margin.
当时我正在打橄榄球和其他英式学校的孩子们做的比赛,有一个比赛项目是赛跑,我以相当大的优势赢得了这些比赛。
Our children's health and well-being are dependent on our commitment to promoting food access and good eating habits at home, at school and in the community.
我们的儿童的健康和福祉取决于我们在家庭、学校和社区促进粮食供应和良好饮食习惯的承诺。
I think that the mere fact that I'm doing it ought to inspire someone. In junior high school the counselor suggested that I focus on wood shop and metal shop.
我认为我做这件事本身就应该激励一些人。在初中的时候,辅导员建议我专注于木制品店和五金制品店。
I have been a goof my whole life. I wasn't really the popular girl in school and didn't have any boyfriends in high school because I was a nerd. I was a geek.
我这一辈子都是一副游手好闲的样子。我在学校不是很受欢迎,在高中也没有男朋友,因为我是个书呆子。我是个极客。
I'm a modern woman in the sense of I take care of myself, I'm fiercely independent, and I'm really ambitious. Yet I have these old-school thoughts in my mind.
我是一个现代女性,我照顾自己,我非常独立,我真的很有野心。然而,我的脑海里却有这些老派的想法。
Scientific discovery consists in the interpretation for our own convenience of a system of existence which has been made with no eye to our convenience at all.
科学发现在于为了我们自身的方便而对一种根本不考虑我们的方便的存在体系进行解释。
But in the life of every man there are influences of a far more real and penetrating character than those which come through the medium of schools or teachers.
但是,在每个人的生活中,都有比通过学校或教师的媒介所产生的影响更为真实和深刻的影响。
My interest in the sciences started with mathematics in the very beginning, and later with chemistry in early high school and the proverbial home chemistry set.
我对科学的兴趣从最开始的数学开始,后来在高中早期的化学和众所周知的家庭化学。
Knowledge has three degrees -- opinion, science, illumination. The means or instrument of the first is sense; of the second, dialectic; of the third, intuition.
知识有三个学位——意见、科学、启发。第一种方法或工具是感觉;第二,辩证法;第三,直觉。
If you wait until your children are high school seniors to spring it on them that there's not a whole lot of money for school, they won't have too many options.
如果你等到你的孩子上了高中才突然告诉他们没有很多钱供他们上学,他们就没有太多的选择了。
If we long to believe that the stars rise and set for us, that we are the reason there is a Universe, does science do us a disservice in deflating our conceits?
如果我们渴望相信星星为我们升起和落下,相信我们是宇宙存在的原因,那么科学是否会让我们的自负受挫呢?
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The most beautiful thing we can experience is the mysterious. It is the source of all true art and all science. He to whom this emotion is a stranger, who can no longer pause to wonder and stand rapt in awe, is as good as dead: his eyes are closed.
我们能经历的最美好的事情就是神秘。它是所有真正艺术和科学的源泉。如果一个人对这种情感是陌生的,他再也不能停下来思考,再也不能全神贯注地敬畏地站着,那他就等于死了:他的眼睛是闭着的。
Definition of Statistics: The science of producing unreliable facts from reliable figures.
统计学的定义:从可靠的数字中得出不可靠的事实的科学。
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。
The science of today is the technology of tomorrow.
今天的科学就是明天的技术。
To raise new questions, new possibilities, to regard old problems from a new angle, requires creative imagination and marks real advance in science.
提出新的问题,新的可能性,从新的角度看待老问题,需要创造性的想象力,标志着科学的真正进步。