Growing up human is uniquely a matter of social relations rather than biology. What we learn from connections within the family takes the place of instincts that program the behavior of animals; which raises the question, how good are these connections?

  • -- Elizabeth Janeway 伊丽莎白·珍威

人类的成长是一个独特的社会关系问题,而不是生物学问题。我们从家庭内部的联系中学到的东西取代了动物行为的本能;这就提出了一个问题,这些联系有多好?

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I am not religious. I do not believe that personhood is conferred upon conception. But I also do not believe that a human embryo is the moral equivalent of a hangnail and deserves no more respect than an appendix.

我不信教。我不认为人格是由概念赋予的。但我也不认为人类胚胎在道德上等同于一根倒刺,它只配得上一个阑尾。

No! on Human Rights and Freedom, on a subject that is as self-evident as that two and two make four, there is no need of any written authority.

不!在人权和自由问题上,在一个象二加二等于四这样不言而喻的问题上,不需要任何书面权威。

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。

Journalism is printing what someone else does not want printed. Everything else is public relations.

新闻就是印刷别人不想印刷的东西。其他一切都是公共关系。

Most of our social nature is like that of other primates - we're mostly out for ourselves.

我们大多数的社交天性就像其他灵长类动物一样——我们主要是为了自己。