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关于“未来”的一些英语名言
武夷山 辑译
The human brain had a vast memory storage. It made us curious and very creative. Those were the characteristics that gave us an advantage – curiosity, creativity and memory. And that brain did something very special. It invented an idea called ‘the future.’
人脑有巨大的存储量。它使我们充满好奇心和创造性。赋予我们优势的一些特征是:好奇心、创造力和记忆力。这个大脑还做过一桩非常特别的事。它发明了一个观念叫“未来”
– David Suzuki(大卫·铃木,即铃木孝义,1936年3月24日- ,日裔加拿大遗传学家)
For time and the world do not stand still. Change is the law of life. And those who look only to the past or the present are certain to miss the future.
因为时代和世界没有停步。变革是生命的律条。那些只盯住过去或现在的人定将失去未来。
– John F Kennedy。美国前总统肯尼迪
You cannot create new science unless you realise where the old science leaves off and new science begins, and science fiction forces us to confront this.
除非你明白旧科学在何处离场,新科学从何处登场,你是不可能创造出新科学的,而科幻作品逼迫我们直面这一点。
– Michio Kaku(1947- ),加来道雄,美国理论物理学教授
I don’t try to describe the future. I try to prevent it.
我不试图描述未来,我试图防止未来到来。
– Ray Bradbury(雷·布雷德伯里,1920.8.22—2012.6.6,美国科幻作家)
There is nothing like a dream to create the future.
没有比创造未来更美好的梦想了。
– Victor Hugo,法国大文豪雨果
Citizens with a conscience are not going to ignore wrong-doing simply because they’ll be destroyed for it: the conscience forbids it.
有良心的公民不会无视恶行,并不仅仅因为他们会被恶行毁掉,而且因为良心就直接禁止恶行。
– Edward Snowden,爱德华.斯诺登
You can never properly predict the future as it really turns out. So you are doing something a little different when you write science fiction. You are trying to take a different perspective on now.
你永远不可能适当地预测出未来实际展开的样子。于是,你创作科幻小说时所做的事略有不同。你试图从不同的视角来观察当下。
– Kim Stanley Robinson(金·斯坦利·罗宾逊,1952- ,美国科幻小说大师)
The best way to predict the future is to create it.
预测未来的最佳方式是创造未来。
– Peter Drucker,美国管理学大师杜鲁克
I’m an inventor. I became interested in long-term trends because an invention has to make sense in the world in which it is finished, not the world in which it is started.
我是发明家。我对长程趋势感兴趣的原因是,发明成果必须在其衰亡的那个世界仍有意义,而不单是在其问世的世界里有意义。
– Ray Kurzweil,雷·库兹韦尔,美国发明家
Sustainable development is the pathway to the future we want for all. It offers a framework to generate economic growth, achieve social justice, exercise environmental stewardship and strengthen governance.
可持续发展是通向我们所有人都向往的未来的道路。它提供了一个框架以产生经济增长、实现社会公正、实施环境管理和强化治理。
– Ban Ki-moon,联合国前秘书长潘基文
They say the innocent have nothing to hide – but they do have something to protect.
他们说,天真无瑕的人们没有任何好遮掩的东西——但他们确实有值得保护的东西。
– Shami Chakrabarti
The scientific man does not aim at an immediate result. He does not expect that his advanced ideas will be readily taken up. His work is like that of the planter – for the future. His duty is to lay the foundation for those who are to come, and point the way.
科学人不是着眼于切近的结果。他不指望自己的先进想法会轻轻松松地被采纳。其工作好比播种者的工作——面向未来。他的职责是为未来的人们铺好地基,指明道路。
– Nikola Tesla(尼古拉·特斯拉,1856年7月10日-1943年1月7日,塞尔维亚裔美籍发明家)
Without culture, and the relative freedom it implies, society, even when perfect, is but a jungle. This is why any authentic creation is a gift to the future.
没有文化教养,以及文化教养所隐含的相对自由,社会哪怕在完美的时候也不过是丛林。因此,任何货真价实的创造都是献给未来的礼物。
– Albert Camus,法国作家加缪
We are called to be architects of the future, not its victims.
我们被召唤去担当未来的建筑师,而不是成为未来的牺牲品。
– R. Buckminster Fuller(R. 巴克明斯特. 富勒,美国发明家、哲学家)
The Web as I envisaged it, we still have not seen it yet. The future is still so much bigger than the past.
我所构想的那个万维网,我们迄今尚未实现。未来仍旧要比过去宏大广阔得多。
– Tim Berners-Lee,蒂姆·伯纳斯·李,万维网发明者
The danger of the past was that men became slaves. The danger of the future is that man may become robots.
过去的危险在于,人成为奴隶。未来的危险在于,人也许成为机器人。
– Erich Fromm(艾瑞克.弗洛姆, 1900年3月23日 - 1980年3月18日,美籍德裔哲学家)
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