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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。
The ordinary scientific man is strictly a sentimentalist. He is a sentimentalist in this essential sense, that he is soaked and swept away by mere associations.
一般的科学家严格来说是个感情用事的人。他是一个多愁善感的人，从这个本质上说，他只是被一些简单的联想浸透了，并被冲走了。
Science moves with the spirit of an adventure characterized both by youthful arrogance and by the belief that the truth, once found, would be simple as well as pretty.
科学带着一种冒险精神前进，这种精神的特点是年轻时的狂妄自大，以及相信一旦发现了真理，就会既简单又漂亮。
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。
One way we can enliven the imagination is to push it toward the illogical. We're not scientists. We don't always have to make the logical, reasonable leap.
我们激活想象力的一种方法是把它推向不合逻辑的方向。我们不是科学家。我们不必总是做出合乎逻辑的、合理的飞跃。
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。
Take the situation of a scientist solving a problem, where he has certain data, which call for certain responses. Some of this set of data call for his applying such and such a law, while others call for another law.
以科学家解决问题为例，他有一定的数据，需要一定的响应。这组数据中，有些要求他应用某条或某条法律，而另一些则要求另一条法律。