也许最后当东方赶上西方的时候,历史给我们上的一课就是——牛顿和梅文鼎究竟谁是经典力学之父已经没有那么重要了。
Perhaps the real lesson of history is that by the time the east overtakes the west, it will no longer matter much that Newton, and not Mei, was the father of classical physics.
(幻灯片出现:自然界遵循一定得规律,用牛顿的话说就是”自然哲学就是找出自然界规律的学科“(科学在牛顿那个年代称之为自然哲学)尽管人类不断努力去追寻这些规律的更精确形式,也许最终找到了他们的最终形式,但是这些规律不仅仅是人类的思维构想。
(slide-"Nature obeys laws and, in Newton's words, 'it is the business of natural philosophy to find them out.' (Natural philosophy was, in his day, the term for science.)
对牛顿而言,炼金术也许也比化学更有用。
For Newton, alchemy may also have proved bigger than chemistry.
自艾萨克·牛顿之后,他也许是英国最伟大的理论物理学家了。
He was quite probably the best British theoretical physicist since Isaac Newton.
这一发现增进了人类对宇宙的了解,与那也许存在过的掉落的苹果一起,让牛顿获得启发,制定出了新的科学法则。
This improved understanding of the universe, plus maybe a falling apple, inspired Newton to formulate new laws of science.
牛顿认为也许同样这股力量可以达到更远,甚至达到月球。
Perhaps, thought Newton, this same force reached out much farther still, even to the moon.
有时候我想地球引力的发现也许应该归功于那几只落在牛顿头上的苹果。
Sometimes I think the discovery of gravitation perhaps should be credited to those apples falling on Newton's head.
“斑驳的光影效果受到沉思所需条件的启发,也许当牛顿坐在苹果树下时也有过这种体验,”团队说。
"The dappled light effect was inspired by the contemplative conditions that might have been experienced by Isaac Newton while he sat under the apple tree," said the design team.
我以为也许迈克·牛顿……你说过他很友好。
I thought maybe that Mike Newton... you said he was friendly.
我以为也许迈克·牛顿……你说过他很友好。
I thought maybe that Mike Newton... you said he was friendly.
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