The biological task of science is to provide the fully developed human individual with as perfect a means of orientating himself as possible. No other scientific ideal can be realised, and any other must be meaningless.

  • -- Ernst Mach 恩斯特马赫

科学的生物学任务是为充分发展的人类个体提供尽可能完美的定位自己的方法。没有其他的科学理想可以实现,任何其他的科学理想都是毫无意义的。

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Modern science is fast-moving, and no laboratory can exist for long with a program based on old facilities. Innovation and renewal are required to keep a laboratory on the frontiers of science.

现代科学瞬息万变,任何实验室都不可能长期存在于一个以旧设备为基础的项目中。创新和革新是保持实验室在科学前沿的必要条件。

Humans are the only animals that have children on purpose with the exception of guppies, who like to eat theirs.

除了孔雀鱼喜欢吃自己的孩子外,人类是唯一故意生孩子的动物。

The world keeps happening, in accordance with its rules; it's up to us to make sense of it and give it value.

世界总是按照自己的规则发生;这取决于我们如何理解它并赋予它价值。

The violinist is that peculiarly human phenomenon distilled to a rare potency - half tiger, half poet.

小提琴家是一种独特的人类现象,浓缩成一种罕见的力量——一半是老虎,一半是诗人。

We're living in a time when people are struggling to appear perfect.

我们生活在这样一个时代,人们都在努力追求完美。

If I could write the perfect novella I would die happy.

如果我能写出完美的中篇小说,我就会快乐地死去。