My first degree came years before my second. I had wanted to be a physicist, but I flunked calculus.

  • -- Elizabeth Moon 伊丽莎白·穆恩

我的第一个学位比第二个学位早了好几年。我本想成为一名物理学家,但我的微积分不及格。

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Physics is becoming so unbelievably complex that it is taking longer and longer to train a physicist. It is taking so long, in fact, to train a physicist to the place where he understands the nature of physical problems that he is already too old to solve them.

物理学变得如此复杂,以至于培养一个物理学家需要的时间越来越长。事实上,要把一个物理学家培养到能够理解物理问题本质的程度需要很长时间,以至于他已经老得无法解决这些问题了。

This substance, which is manifold in its forms and protean in its transformations, has, in its state of living matter, one physiological name which has become familiar, that of protoplasm.

这种物质的形式是多种多样的,变化是千变万化的,在它的生命状态中,有一个大家熟悉的生理学名称,那就是原生质。

My feelings are those of a schoolboy getting in sight of the holidays. Or more seriously, my feelings are perhaps those of a matador who has decided not to enter the bull ring.

我的感觉就像一个即将迎来假期的小学生。或者更严肃地说,我的感觉可能是一个斗牛士决定不进入斗牛场。

We become strong, I feel, when we have no friends upon whom to lean, or to look to for moral guidance.

我觉得,当我们没有朋友可以依靠或寻求道德指导时,我们就会变得强大。

I am sure that I have been much more useful to society as a medical physicist.

我相信,作为一名医学物理学家,我对社会的贡献要大得多。

I'm not sensitive, I'm not a weepy person.

我不敏感,我不是一个爱哭的人。