This possibility bothered me as I thought it was not advisable to remain in one academic environment, and the long dark winters in Edinburgh could be rather dismal.

  • -- Paul Nurse 纳斯

这种可能性让我感到困扰,因为我认为留在一个学术环境是不可取的,爱丁堡漫长而黑暗的冬天可能会相当沉闷。

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I was pretty dead set against ever writing an academic novel. It's always been my view that there are already more than enough academic novels and that most of them aren't any good. Most of them are self-conscious and bitter, the work of people who want to settle grudges.

我坚决反对写学术小说。我一直认为,学术小说已经够多了,而且大多数都不好。他们中的大多数人都是有自我意识的和痛苦的,他们的工作是那些想要解决怨恨的人的工作。

There is one consolation in being sick; and that is the possibility that you may recover to a better state than you were ever in before.

生病有一种安慰;这就是你可能会恢复到比以前更好的状态的可能性。

If you don't accept failure as a possibility, you don't set high goals, you don't branch out, you don't try - you don't take the risk.

如果你不接受失败是一种可能,你就不会设立高目标,你不会拓展自己的领域,你不会尝试,你不会冒险。

I found a certain kind of music congenial to me; it never occurred to me to write music that was academically acceptable.

我发现有一种音乐很适合我;我从来没有想过要写学术上可以接受的音乐。

My role is not to choose between safeguarding the economy and protecting the environment - it's about doing both.

我的职责不是在保护经济和保护环境之间做出选择——而是两者兼顾。

What a man can be is born with him; what he becomes is a result of his environment.

一个人能成为什么样的人是与生俱来的;他成为什么样的人是他所处环境的结果。