Science is a first-rate piece of furniture for a man's upper chamber, if he has common sense on the ground floor.

  • -- Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr. 小奥利弗·温德尔·霍姆斯

如果一个人在底层有常识的话,那么对于他的上层社会来说,科学是一件第一流的家具。

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You only have to look at London, where almost half of all primary school children speak English as a second language, to see the challenges we now face as a country. This isn't fair to anyone: how can people build relationships with their neighbours if they can't even speak the same language?

你只需要看看伦敦,几乎一半的小学生把英语作为第二语言,就能看到我们现在作为一个国家所面临的挑战。这对任何人都不公平:如果人们连自己的邻居都不会说同一种语言,他们怎么能与之建立关系呢?

You can never rely on musicians. I quit high school at one point to make a go of it with this band and we kept breaking up. So I went back to school.

你永远不能依赖音乐家。有一次,为了和这支乐队一起成功,我从高中退学,然后我们就分手了。所以我回到了学校。

I was always very interested in science, and I knew that for me, science was a better long-term career than tennis.

我一直对科学很感兴趣,我知道对我来说,科学是比网球更好的长期职业。

Two years ago I would have called this baloney.

两年前,我可能会说这是胡扯。