The scientist is motivated primarily by curiosity and a desire for truth.

  • -- Irving Langmuir 欧文·兰缪尔

科学家的动机主要是好奇心和对真理的渴望。

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To that class we may leave it to refine the vernacular dialects of the country, to enrich those dialects with terms of science borrowed from the Western nomenclature, and to render them by degrees fit vehicles for conveying knowledge to the great mass of the population.

对于这一类人,我们可以把它留给改进本国的方言,用借用西方命名法的科学术语来丰富这些方言,并使它们逐渐成为向广大人民传播知识的工具。

When I was in junior high school, the teachers voted me the student most likely to end up in the electric chair.

我上初中的时候,老师们投票选我为最有可能坐电椅的学生。