Science moves with the spirit of an adventure characterized both by youthful arrogance and by the belief that the truth, once found, would be simple as well as pretty.

  • -- James D. Watson 沃森

科学带着一种冒险精神前进,这种精神的特点是年轻时的狂妄自大,以及相信一旦发现了真理,就会既简单又漂亮。

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The Nobel Prize, so long regarded in our science as the highest reward a man's work can earn, must bring to its recipient a most solemn sense of his debt to his fellow scientists and those of the past.

诺贝尔奖,长期以来在我们的科学界被视为一个人的工作所能获得的最高奖赏,它必须给它的接受者带来一种对他的科学家同行和过去的科学家所负的最庄严的责任的感觉。

As great scientists have said and as all children know, it is above all by the imagination that we achieve perception, and compassion, and hope.

正如伟大的科学家们所说,正如所有的孩子们所知道的,最重要的是通过想象力,我们获得了感知、同情和希望。

The arrogance of officialdom should be tempered and controlled, and assistance to foreign hands should be curtailed, lest Rome fall.

官场的傲慢应该得到缓和和控制,对外国人的援助应该减少,以免罗马陷落。

The little reed, bending to the force of the wind, soon stood upright again when the storm had passed over.

那根小芦苇被风吹弯了腰,不久,暴风雨过去了,它又站了起来。

Cheerfulness and contentment are great beautifiers, and are fatuous preservers of youthful looks.

快乐和满足是很好的美容剂,也是保持年轻容颜的愚蠢手段。

The sixties were characterized by a heady belief in instantaneous solutions.

六十年代的特点是对即时解决方案的狂热信仰。

I'm a very professional man. I'm not out for the experience of adventure.

我是一个非常专业的人。我不喜欢冒险。

Good parties create a temporary youthfulness.

好的聚会能让你暂时变得年轻。

Self-praise is like chewing cotton wool.

自我表扬就像嚼棉花絮。