Each of us is a tiny being, permitted to ride on the outermost skin of one of the smaller planets for a few dozen trips around the local star.

  • -- Carl Sagan 卡尔·萨根

我们每个人都是一个微小的生命,被允许骑在一颗较小行星的最外层,绕着当地的恒星进行几十次旅行。

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I go where the material is, and I feel like I'm looking for really strong directors. That's the key ingredient. There are some directors I would move the sun and earth for, or stop the rotation of the planets, just to work with them.

我去有素材的地方,我觉得我在寻找真正强大的导演。这是关键因素。有一些董事,我会移动太阳和地球,或停止行星的旋转,只是为了和他们一起工作。

Chemistry has been termed by the physicist as the messy part of physics, but that is no reason why the physicists should be permitted to make a mess of chemistry when they invade it.

化学一直被物理学家称为物理学中混乱的部分,但这并不是物理学家在侵入化学领域时应该被允许把化学弄得一团糟的原因。

Perhaps I seek certain utopian things, space for human honour and respect, landscapes not yet offended, planets that do not exist yet, dreamed landscapes.

也许我在寻找一些乌托邦式的东西,人类荣誉和尊重的空间,尚未被冒犯的风景,尚不存在的星球,梦想中的风景。

If venereal delight and the power of propagating the species were permitted only to the virtuous, it would make the world very good.

如果把性快感和繁衍后代的力量只允许给有道德的人,世界就会变得非常美好。