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问题
Questions
There is no area of the world that should not be investigated by scientists. There will always remain some questions that have not been answered. In general, these are the questions that have not yet been posed.
世界上没有任何地方不应该被科学家研究。总会有一些问题没有得到解答。一般来说,这些问题尚未提出。
If you want a free society, teach your children what oppression tastes like. Tell them how many miracles it takes to get from here to there. Above all, encourage them to ask questions. Teach them to think for themselves.
如果你想要一个自由的社会,教你的孩子什么是压迫的滋味。告诉他们从这里到那里需要多少奇迹。最重要的是,鼓励他们问问题。教他们独立思考。
If you could sit down with Jesus, you wouldn't need anybody else. He could answer all of your questions. Instead of Einstein and Louis Pasteur and Madame Curry, you could just have Jesus and he could answer for all of them.
如果你能和耶稣一起坐下来,你就不需要别人了。他能回答你所有的问题。而不是爱因斯坦,路易斯巴斯德和柯里夫人,你可以有耶稣,他可以为他们所有人回答。
I've always been one of the youngest guys on the team. But now I'm one of the older guys, one of the more experienced guys, and I have to be more of a leader. The guys are looking up to me, asking me questions and looking at me to step up.
我一直是队里最年轻的球员之一。但现在我是一个年长的人,一个更有经验的人,我必须成为一个更有领导能力的人。男生们都看着我,问我问题,看着我往上走。
I noticed that no matter where I went in the country, there was this group of questions that got asked. I would track them and keep them in categories. Like body image, school, family, friendship, you name it, the emotional life of a teenage girl.
我注意到,无论我去了这个国家的哪个地方,总会有人问我这样的问题。我会跟踪他们,并把他们分类。就像身体意象,学校,家庭,友谊,你能想到的,一个十几岁女孩的情感生活。
I've done thousands of interviews in my life, and it's a format that I quite enjoy, because I think of questions in interviews as an opportunity to sort of gauge my growth in a way. It gives me an idea of how I'm navigating this world that I'm in.
我一生中做过成千上万次面试,我非常喜欢这种形式,因为我认为面试中的问题是一个机会,可以在某种程度上衡量我的成长。它让我知道我是如何在这个世界上航行的。
I found I wasn't asking good enough questions because I assumed I knew something. I would box them into a corner with a badly formed question, and they didn't know how to get out of it. Now, I let them take me through it step by step, and I listen.
我发现我问的问题不够好,因为我以为我知道一些事情。我会用一个形式糟糕的问题把他们逼到墙角,而他们不知道如何摆脱。现在,我让他们一步一步地把我带过去,我听着。
Only reason can convince us of those three fundamental truths without a recognition of which there can be no effective liberty: that what we believe is not necessarily true; that what we like is not necessarily good; and that all questions are open.
只有理性才能使我们相信这三个基本真理,而不承认这三个真理,就不可能有真正的自由:我们相信的不一定是真理;我们喜欢的不一定是好的;所有的问题都是开放的。
I have arrived at the conviction that the neglect by economists to discuss seriously what is really the crucial problem of our time is due to a certain timidity about soiling their hands by going from purely scientific questions into value questions.
我已经确信,经济学家忽视认真讨论我们这个时代真正关键的问题,是因为他们在从纯粹的科学问题转向价值问题的过程中,存在着一定的畏惧感。
If most people are not willing to see the difficulty, this is mainly because, consciously or unconsciously, they assume that it will be they who will settle these questions for the others, and because they are convinced of their own capacity to do this.
如果大多数人不愿意看到困难,这主要是因为,有意识或无意识地,他们认为将由他们来为其他人解决这些问题,因为他们相信自己有能力做到这一点。
Here's the teaching point, if you're teaching kids about intelligence and policy: Intelligence does not absolve policymakers of responsibility to ask tough questions, and it doesn't absolve them of having curiosity about the consequences of their actions.
如果你教孩子们有关智力和政策的知识,这里有一个教学要点:智力不能免除决策者提出尖锐问题的责任,也不能免除他们对自己行为后果的好奇心。
I've done a lot of interviews of the last few years, and I've actually started a list of questions that it would be fun to ask an author, but no respectable interviewer would ever ask. Since I'm not respectable, I'm going to start doing interviews with some authors I know, just for fun.
在过去的几年里,我做过很多采访,实际上,我已经开始了一系列的问题,问一个作家会很有趣,但没有一个可敬的采访者会问这些问题。由于我不受人尊敬,我打算开始采访一些我认识的作家,只是为了好玩。
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Too many people asking too many questions in tennis. Golf is better.
在网球运动中,太多的人问了太多的问题。高尔夫是更好。
There were always questions about my parents; I got so fed up with that.
总是有关于我父母的问题;我受够了。
New opinions often appear first as jokes and fancies, then as blasphemies and treason, then as questions open to discussion, and finally as established truths.
新观点常常首先以玩笑和幻想的形式出现,然后以亵渎和背叛的形式出现,最后以可供讨论的问题的形式出现,最后以公认的真理的形式出现。
God may be in the details, but the goddess is in the questions. Once we begin to ask them, there's no turning back.
上帝可能在细节中,但女神在问题中。一旦我们开始问他们,就没有回头路了。
For me, this world of questions and the provisional, this chase after an answer that was always put off to the next day, all that was euphoric. I lived in the future.
对我来说,这个世界上的问题和暂时的,这种追逐答案,总是被推迟到第二天,所有这一切都是令人愉快的。我生活在未来。
Science goes from question to question; big questions, and little, tentative answers. The questions as they age grow ever broader, the answers are seen to be more limited.
科学从一个问题到另一个问题;大问题,小问题,试探性的答案。随着年龄的增长,这些问题的范围越来越广,答案似乎也越来越有限。