A COLLECTION OF GOOD WORDS
科技
Technology
There was a long history of speculation that in quantum gravity, unlike Einstein's classical theory, it might be possible for the topology of spacetime to change.
长期以来，人们一直在猜测，与爱因斯坦的经典理论不同，量子引力可能会改变时空的拓扑结构。
But while doing that I'd been following a variety of fields in science and technology, including the work in molecular biology, genetic engineering, and so forth.
但在做这些的时候，我一直在关注科学和技术的各个领域，包括分子生物学、基因工程等等。
I hate it, it is tedious... when I write for my act, it is very improvisational, I write bullet points, I cannot sit in front of a computer; that is not my style.
我讨厌它，它很乏味……当我为我的表演写作时，它是非常即兴的，我写下要点，我不能坐在电脑前;那不是我的风格。
Industrialization based on machinery, already referred to as a characteristic of our age, is but one aspect of the revolution that is being wrought by technology.
以机械为基础的工业化，已经被称为我们这个时代的一个特点，只是由技术正在进行的革命的一个方面。
I think there's a tendency for modern man to become dominated by gadgets and machines, taking us further and further away from the things I've been talking about.
我认为现代人有一种被小玩意和机器主导的趋势，让我们越来越远离我一直在谈论的东西。
It's also a reasonable scientific program to look at the dynamics of the standard model and to try to prove from that dynamics that it is computationally capable.
这也是一个合理的科学程序来研究标准模型的动力学并试图从动力学中证明它是有计算能力的。
Science coverage could be improved by the recognition that science is timeless, and therefore science stories should not need to be pegged to an item in the news.
科学报道可以通过认识到科学是永恒的而得到改善，因此科学报道不应该与新闻中的某个项目挂钩。
I took lots of photographs and had planned to write a treatise on how it worked, but I quickly got bored with that idea and wrote a scientific fairy tale instead.
我拍了很多照片，并打算写一篇关于它是如何工作的论文，但我很快就厌倦了这个想法，转而写了一个科学童话。
When I was growing up there was a product made by Sony called the Sony Walkman - a rage, everyone had to have one. Well, you don't hear about the Walkman anymore.
在我成长的过程中，索尼有一款产品叫做索尼随身听。你再也听不到随身听了。
I support any procedure that allows photographers to express themselves, whether that involves color, black and white, platinum, palladium and digital technology.
我支持任何允许摄影师表达自己的程序，无论是彩色、黑白、铂金、钯金还是数字技术。
Planets are too dim to be detected with existing equipment, far away, except in these very special circumstances where they're seen by their gravitational effect.
行星太暗，无法用现有的设备探测到，除非在这些非常特殊的情况下，它们的引力效应可以被观测到。
Now science has presented us with a hope called stem cell research, which may provide our scientists with many answers that have for so long been beyond our grasp.
现在，科学给我们带来了一个被称为干细胞研究的希望，它可能为我们的科学家提供许多长期以来我们无法掌握的答案。
KEEP EXPLORING
沿着这个主题，再读几句。
Technology gives us power, but it does not and cannot tell us how to use that power. Thanks to technology, we can instantly communicate across the world, but it still doesn't help us know what to say.
技术给了我们力量，但它没有也不能告诉我们如何使用这种力量。多亏了科技，我们可以在世界各地即时交流，但它仍然不能帮助我们知道该说什么。
All of the biggest technological inventions created by man - the airplane, the automobile, the computer - says little about his intelligence, but speaks volumes about his laziness.
人类创造的所有最伟大的技术发明——飞机、汽车、电脑——很少提到他的智力，但却充分说明了他的懒惰。
The march of invention has clothed mankind with powers of which a century ago the boldest imagination could not have dreamt.
发明的进步赋予了人类一个世纪前最大胆的想象所无法想象的力量。
The kind of environment that we developed Google in, the reason that we were able to develop a search engine, is the web was so open. Once you get too many rules, that will stifle innovation.
我们开发谷歌的环境，我们能够开发搜索引擎的原因，是网络是如此的开放。一旦你制定了太多的规则，就会扼杀创新。
You might not think that programmers are artists, but programming is an extremely creative profession. It's logic-based creativity.
你可能不认为程序员是艺术家，但编程是一种极具创造性的职业。它是基于逻辑的创造力。
Despite all the technical improvements, it still boils down to a man or a woman and a microphone, playing music, sharing stories, talking about issues - communicating with an audience.
尽管技术上有了很大的进步，但归根结底还是一个男人或一个女人和麦克风，播放音乐，分享故事，谈论问题——与观众交流。