Through the continued accumulation of detailed and reliable knowledge about elementary reactions, we will be in a better position to understand, predict and control many time-dependent macroscopic chemical processes which are important in nature or to human society.

  • -- Yuan T. Lee 李远哲

通过不断积累有关基本反应的详细可靠的知识,我们将能够更好地理解、预测和控制许多与时间有关的宏观化学过程,这些过程在自然界或人类社会中是重要的。

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I can't predict how reading habits will change. But I will say that the greatest loss is the paper archive - no more a great stack of manuscripts, letters, and notebooks from a writer's life, but only a tiny pile of disks, little plastic cookies where once were calligraphic marvels.

我无法预测阅读习惯将如何改变。但我想说的是,最大的损失是纸质档案——不再是一大堆手稿、信件和作家生活中的笔记本,而是一小堆磁盘,小小的塑料饼干,曾经是书法奇迹的地方。

You can imagine a soul as being a detailed, elaborate pattern that exists very clearly in one brain. When a person dies, the original is no longer around. But there are other versions of it in other people's brains. It's a less detailed copy, it's coarse-grained.

你可以把灵魂想象成一个在一个大脑中清晰存在的精细的图案。一个人死了,原来就不在了。但在其他人的大脑中还有其他版本。这是一个不太详细的副本,它是粗粒度的。

You take a number of small steps which you believe are right, thinking maybe tomorrow somebody will treat this as a dangerous provocation. And then you wait. If there is no reaction, you take another step: courage is only an accumulation of small steps.

你采取了一些你认为是正确的小步骤,想着也许明天有人会把这当作一种危险的挑衅。然后你等待。如果没有反应,你就会迈出另一步:勇气只是一小步的积累。

To get away from poverty, you need several things at the same time: school, health, and infrastructure - those are the public investments. And on the other side, you need market opportunities, information, employment, and human rights.

为了摆脱贫困,你需要同时做几件事:学校、医疗和基础设施——这些都是公共投资。另一方面,你需要市场机会、信息、就业和人权。

A battery by definition is a collection of cells. So the cell is a little can of chemicals. And the challenge is taking a very high-energy cell, and a large number of them, and combining them safely into a large battery.

电池的定义是电池的集合。细胞是一罐化学物质。现在的挑战是把一个高能量的电池,以及大量的电池,安全地组合成一个大电池。

I was in a play in elementary school and had to jump up and run away. I was nervous and tripped and fell down and everyone laughed. Their laughter made me relax, so I pretended it was part of the show.

我在小学的时候参加了一个戏剧表演,不得不跳起来逃跑。我很紧张,绊了一跤,大家都笑了。他们的笑声让我放松,所以我假装这是节目的一部分。

Almost nothing works the first time it's attempted. Just because what you're doing does not seem to be working, doesn't mean it won't work. It just means that it might not work the way you're doing it.

第一次尝试时几乎没有什么效果。仅仅因为你所做的似乎没有效果,并不意味着它不会起作用。这只是意味着它可能不像你做的那样工作。

I didn't want readers to have to make allowances for what they couldn't see, but to be able to say to themselves that the fabric of the magic detailed was perfectly believable.

我不希望读者不得不对他们看不到的东西妥协,而是要能够对自己说,魔法细节的结构是完全可信的。

I don't think having a My Chemical Romance action figure will make a kid start his own band, I like to think it will make him save children from a burning building.

我不认为我的化学浪漫动作人偶会让一个孩子成立自己的乐队,我更愿意认为它会让他从着火的大楼里救出孩子们。

I loved it, but had to forget about acting after elementary school because it was the sort of thing you just didn't do in my rough neighborhood.

我很喜欢它,但小学毕业后就不得不忘记表演,因为在我生活艰苦的社区里,你不会做这种事。

Trying to predict the future is like trying to drive down a country road at night with no lights while looking out the back window.

试图预测未来就像试图在没有灯光的夜晚开车行驶在乡间小路上,同时从后窗往外看。

It took me years to understand that words are often as important as experience, because words make experience last.

我花了几年的时间才明白,语言和经验一样重要,因为语言能让经验持久。

To understand the world, one’s place in it, is to be always at the risk of drowning.

要了解这个世界,了解一个人在这个世界上的位置,就得冒着被淹死的危险。