The history of mankind is confined within a limited period, and from every quarter brings an intimation that human affairs have had a beginning.

  • -- Adam Ferguson 亚当·弗格森

人类的历史局限在一个有限的时期内,每一个角落都有一个迹象表明人类事务已经开始了。

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One day I discovered that one could get the barrier to internal rotation in ethane approximately right using this method. This was the beginning of my work on organic molecules.

有一天我发现用这种方法可以近似地得到乙烷内部旋转的势垒。这是我研究有机分子的开始。

Revolution is not something fixed in ideology, nor is it something fashioned to a particular decade. It is a perpetual process embedded in the human spirit.

革命不是某种固定的意识形态,也不是某种特定年代的产物。这是人类精神中一个永恒的过程。

Sea Change was so specific. From the beginning it was set what it was going to be. All the other ideas that I had at the time I had to put to the side.

海洋变化是如此具体。从一开始它就被设定好了。我当时所有其他的想法都不得不搁置一边。

You have a nice personality, but not for a human being.

你个性很好,但不适合人类。