生命的意义在于追求真理。
The meaning of life lies in the pursuit of truth.
Every failure is a lesson that brings us closer to success.
The minimum content of natural law is necessary for any legal system.
We are just beginning to scratch the surface of understanding how our bodies perceive the environment.
有时我们会为某些事情感到悲伤,而我们不愿意告诉别人我们为此感到悲伤。
Profit should never come at the expense of the ocean's biodiversity.
At that age, I'd take any excuse to make estimates and do minor arithmetic. I'd calculate our gas mileage -- figure out useless statistics on things like grocery spending. I'd been hearing an ad campaign about smoking. I can't remember the details, but basically the ad said, every puff of a cigarette takes some number of minutes off of your life: I think it might have been two minutes per puff. At any rate, I decided to do the math for my grandmother. I estimated the number of cigarettes per days, estimated the number of puffs per cigarette and so on. When I was satisfied that I'd come up with a reasonable number, I poked my head into the front of the car, tapped my grandmother on the shoulder, and proudly proclaimed, "At two minutes per puff, you've taken nine years off your life!"
The most exciting phrase to hear in science, the one that heralds new discoveries, is not 'Eureka!' but 'That's funny...'