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科学家们
Scientists
As neither of these two great research scientists was able to find the solution to the mystery, it is small wonder that none of their contemporaries were able to do so either.
由于这两位伟大的研究科学家都未能找到这个谜团的答案，难怪他们同时代的人也无法找到答案。
Scientists often have a naive faith that if only they could discover enough facts about a problem, these facts would somehow arrange themselves in a compelling and true solution.
科学家们常常天真地认为，只要他们能发现一个问题的足够事实，这些事实就会以某种方式排列成一个令人信服的、真实的解决方案。
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。
And yet I would not freely exchange my science for those of my fellow laureates. They are forever confined in their professional discussions to the small numbers of their fellow scientists.
然而，我不会自由地用我的科学来交换我的获奖者。他们的专业讨论永远局限于他们的少数科学家同行。
The Nobel Prize, so long regarded in our science as the highest reward a man's work can earn, must bring to its recipient a most solemn sense of his debt to his fellow scientists and those of the past.
诺贝尔奖，长期以来在我们的科学界被视为一个人的工作所能获得的最高奖赏，它必须给它的接受者带来一种对他的科学家同行和过去的科学家所负的最庄严的责任的感觉。
There must be possible a fiction which, leaving sociology and case histories to the scientists, can arrive at the truth about the human condition, here and now, with all the bright magic of the fairy tale.
一定存在这样一种可能:把社会学和案例史留给科学家们，让他们用童话中所有的光明魔力，在此时此地，了解人类状况的真相。
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。
Scientists have stated that embryonic stem cells provide the best opportunity for devising unique treatments of these serious diseases since, unlike adult stem cells, they may be induced to develop into any type of cell.
科学家们指出，胚胎干细胞为设计治疗这些严重疾病的独特疗法提供了最佳机会，因为与成人干细胞不同，胚胎干细胞可以被诱导发育成任何类型的细胞。
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。
Some scientists claim that hydrogen, because it is so plentiful, is the basic building block of the universe. I dispute that. I say there is more stupidity than hydrogen, and that is the basic building block of the universe.
一些科学家声称，由于氢如此丰富，它是宇宙的基本组成部分。我的争端。我说，比氢更愚蠢的是，氢是宇宙的基本组成部分。
Some otherwise sane scientists have seriously proposed that we tuck this deadly garbage under the edges of drifting continents but how can they be sure the moving land masses will climb over the waste and not just push it forward?
一些头脑清醒的科学家严肃地提出，我们应该把这些致命的垃圾埋在漂移的大陆边缘，但他们怎么能确定移动的大陆块会爬过这些垃圾，而不只是推动它们前进呢?
They decided that unpaid leave could only be granted through the decision of a council that consisted almost entirely of scientists who couldn't understand my reasons for wanting to go so. They said no, no unpaid. So I immediately resigned.
他们决定，无薪休假只能通过一个委员会的决定获得批准，这个委员会几乎全部由科学家组成，他们无法理解我想要休假的原因。他们说没有，没有报酬。所以我立刻辞职了。
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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。
The key fact missed most often by social scientists utilizing documentary films for data, is this: documentary films are not found or reported things; they're made things.
利用纪录片作为数据的社会科学家最常忽略的一个关键事实是:纪录片没有被发现或报道过;他们让事情。
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。
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。
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。
Scientists are peeping toms at the keyhole of eternity.
科学家们正在窥视永恒的钥匙孔。