The real question is: How do you react? What do you do next? Evade responsibilities? Bury yourself in work? What do you do? All three of my novels take up that question, although none gives an answer.
真正的问题是:你如何反应?接下来你要做什么?逃避责任?埋头工作?你是做什么的?我的三部小说都回答了这个问题，尽管没有一部给出答案。
The real scientist is ready to bear privation and, if need be, starvation rather than let anyone dictate to him which direction his work must take.
真正的科学家愿意忍受贫困，如果需要，也愿意忍受饥饿，而不让任何人来指挥他的工作应该朝哪个方向走。
The reason a lot of people do not recognize opportunity is because it usually goes around wearing overalls looking like hard work.
很多人没有意识到机遇的存在，是因为它总是穿着工装裤走来走去，看上去像在努力工作。
The reward for work well done is the opportunity to do more.
做好工作的回报是有机会做得更多。
The right thing to do and the hard thing to do are usually the same.
正确的事情和困难的事情通常是一样的。
The ritual by which man constructs a sacred space is efficacious in the measure in which it reproduces the work of the gods.
人类建造神圣空间的仪式在复制神的作品方面是有效的。
The road to happiness lies in two simple principles: find what it is that interests you and that you can do well, and when you find it, put your whole soul into it-every bit of energy and ambition and natural ability you have.
通往幸福的道路在于两条简单的原则:找到你感兴趣的，你能做好的，当你找到它的时候，把你的整个灵魂都投入其中——你所拥有的每一点能量、抱负和天生的能力。
The secret of being miserable is to have leisure to bother about whether you are happy or not. The cure for it is occupation.
痛苦的秘密在于有闲功夫担心自己是否幸福。解决这个问题的方法是职业。
The secret of joy in work is contained in one word - excellence. To know how to do something well is to enjoy it.
工作中快乐的秘密就在于一个词——卓越。知道如何做好一件事就是享受它。
The self cannot be escaped, but it can be, with ingenuity and hard work, distracted.
自我是无法逃脱的，但它可以凭借独创性和辛勤工作而分心。
The sentimentalist ages far more quickly than the person who loves his work and enjoys new challenges.
多愁善感的人比热爱工作、喜欢新挑战的人衰老得更快。
The skills that we have are the actual magic skills - not the performing skills. We have to separate those. But the actual skills that make the tricks work, we don't get to use again.
我们拥有的技能是真正的魔法技能，而不是表演技能。我们必须把它们分开。但是真正使这些把戏奏效的技巧，我们不再使用了。
The society which scorns excellence in plumbing because plumbing is a humble activity, and tolerates shoddiness in philosophy because philosophy is an exalted activity, will have neither good plumbing nor good philosophy. Neither its pipes nor its theories will hold water.
如果一个社会因为铅管是一项卑贱的活动而蔑视铅管的卓越，又因为哲学是一项崇高的活动而容忍哲学的粗鄙，那么这个社会既不会有好的铅管，也不会有好的哲学。它的管道和理论都站不住脚。
The speculative part of my work is that these particular cognitive tasks - ways of thinking analytically - are tied to nature's laws.
我工作的思辨部分是，这些特定的认知任务——分析性思维方式——与自然规律有关。
The sport I love has taken me around the world and shown me many things.
我热爱的运动带我环游世界，给我展示了很多东西。