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科学家们
Scientists
All scientists are mad scientists.
所有的科学家都是疯狂的科学家。
Scientists are peeping toms at the keyhole of eternity.
科学家们正在窥视永恒的钥匙孔。
If global cooling will come soon - scientists will lose trust.
如果全球变冷即将到来，科学家们将失去信任。
Scientists are people who build the Brooklyn Bridge and then buy it.
科学家是建造布鲁克林大桥然后买下它的人。
The interpretation of facts in a certain way stimulates other scientists' thoughts.
以某种方式解释事实会激发其他科学家的想法。
Theories of love are found in the works of scientists, philosophers, and theologians.
爱的理论可以在科学家、哲学家和神学家的著作中找到。
Scientists who play by someone else's rules don't have much chance of making discoveries.
按别人的规则行事的科学家没有多少发现的机会。
A lot of scientists act on their beliefs and so do things that look crazy to the rest of us.
很多科学家都按照自己的信念行事，所以他们做的事情在我们其他人看来很疯狂。
I am optimistic globally. So many scientists are working frantically on the reparation of our planet.
我对全球持乐观态度。如此多的科学家正疯狂地致力于地球的修复工作。
As scientists, we keep an open mind, but we have to base our ideas about the past on archaeological evidence.
作为科学家，我们保持开放的心态，但我们必须以考古证据为基础来了解过去。
I thought I would reflect here on a theme most scientists enjoy recalling: the part luck played in their accomplishments.
我想我要在这里就大多数科学家喜欢回忆的一个主题进行反思:运气在他们的成就中所起的作用。
As it turns out, social scientists have established only one fact about single women's mental health: employment improves it.
事实证明，社会科学家只确定了单身女性心理健康的一个事实:就业可以改善心理健康。
KEEP EXPLORING
沿着这个主题，再读几句。
I think that cognitive scientists would support the view that our visual system does not directly represent what is out there in the world and that our brain constructs a lot of the imagery that we believe we are seeing.
我认为认知科学家会支持这样一种观点，即我们的视觉系统并不直接代表世界上的东西，我们的大脑构造了很多我们认为我们看到的图像。
As an undergraduate, I did maths and physics. That doesn't make me a scientist. So I try to read and understand and talk to scientists.
本科时，我学数学和物理。这并不能说明我是科学家。所以我试着阅读、理解和与科学家交谈。
Although reading the classics in Latin in school may be not as fulfilling as it would be at a more mature age, few scientists can afford the time for such diversion later in life.
虽然在学校里读拉丁文经典可能不如在更成熟的时候那么令人满足，但很少有科学家能在以后的生活中有时间做这样的消遣。
In my grandfather's lab, scientists did independent research, and peers reviewed and commented on its merits. Politics, he taught me, had no place in the scientific process.
在我祖父的实验室里，科学家们进行了独立的研究，同行们对它的优点进行了评论。他告诉我，政治在科学过程中没有地位。
There is not much that even the most socially responsible scientists can do as individuals, or even as a group, about the social consequences of their activities.
即使是最具社会责任感的科学家，作为个人，甚至作为一个群体，也无法就其活动的社会后果做出多少贡献。