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科技
Technology
Well, the thought that everybody might have a personal computer at their desk or their home was certainly not on the mainstream of anybody's activity at that time.
在那个时候，每个人的办公桌上或家里都可能有一台个人电脑的想法肯定不是主流。
Most importantly, I agree that the truth of these matters should be determined by interpretation of scientific evidence - experiments, fossil studies and the like.
最重要的是，我同意这些问题的真相应该通过科学证据的解释来确定——实验、化石研究等等。
In fiber optics, the cable is a light pipe or waveguide, into which you inject light. If a finger presses on the pipe, it disrupts that light within the waveguide.
在光纤中，电缆是光管或波导，你把光注入其中。如果手指压在管道上，就会破坏波导内的光。
My scientific studies have afforded me great gratification; and I am convinced that it will not be long before the whole world acknowledges the results of my work.
我的科学研究给了我极大的满足;我相信，不久全世界就会承认我的工作成果。
Almost all aspects of life are engineered at the molecular level, and without understanding molecules we can only have a very sketchy understanding of life itself.
生命的几乎所有方面都是在分子水平上设计的，没有对分子的了解，我们只能对生命本身有一个非常粗略的了解。
I've always seen the world through the eyes of a scientist. I love the predictable outcomes that science gives us, the control over the world that that can render.
我总是用科学家的眼光看世界。我喜欢科学给我们带来的可预测的结果，以及由此带来的对世界的控制。
I think one of the greatest enemies in the use of technology, however, is the idea that if you use the technology you have to throw other things out of the window.
我认为使用科技最大的敌人之一是，如果你使用科技，你必须把其他东西扔出窗外。
String theory is an attempt at a deeper description of nature by thinking of an elementary particle not as a little point but as a little loop of vibrating string.
弦理论试图通过把一个基本粒子看成一个振动弦的小环而不是一个小点来更深入地描述自然。
Part of the problem is when we bring in a new technology we expect it to be perfect in a way that we don't expect the world that we're familiar with to be perfect.
部分问题在于，当我们引入一项新技术时，我们期望它是完美的，而不是我们所熟悉的世界是完美的。
A stem cell is essentially a blank cell capable of becoming another, more differentiated cell-type in the body, such as a skin cell, a muscle cell or a nerve cell.
干细胞本质上是一种空白细胞，能够成为体内另一种分化程度更高的细胞类型，如皮肤细胞、肌肉细胞或神经细胞。
The Space Shuttle will stop directly below the Space Station and Sergei and I will be looking out two different windows looking straight down at the Space Shuttle.
航天飞机将停在空间站正下方谢尔盖和我将从两扇不同的窗户往下看航天飞机。
I go and see anything that's visually new, any technology that's about picture-making. The technology won't make the pictures different, but someone using it will.
我去看任何视觉上新颖的东西，任何关于摄影的技术。技术不会让照片变得不同，但有人会用它。
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The number one benefit of information technology is that it empowers people to do what they want to do. It lets people be creative. It lets people be productive. It lets people learn things they didn't think they could learn before, and so in a sense it is all about potential.
信息技术的最大好处是它使人们能够做他们想做的事情。它让人们变得有创造力。它让人们更有效率。它让人们学习他们以前认为自己学不到的东西，所以从某种意义上说，这一切都是关于潜力的。
For a successful technology, reality must take precedence over public relations, for Nature cannot be fooled.
对于一项成功的技术，现实必须凌驾于公共关系之上，因为自然是不会被愚弄的。
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。
Wouldn't it be great if the technology we used to take care of ourselves was as good as the technology we use to make money?
如果我们用来照顾自己的技术和我们用来赚钱的技术一样好，那不是很棒吗?
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。
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。