And I said to my advisor, "No, no. I have taken chemistry in high school, and I can assure you that chemistry has no relevance whatsoever to the life sciences."
于是我就去和我导师说:,“我在高中学过化学,我向你保证化学和生命科学,没有任何关联“
it's a two-and-a-half-year-long program that mixes biology, chemistry, physics and computer science together.
这门课是一个两年半的项目,涵盖了生物学、化学、物理学,还有计算机科学。
So hopefully you'll all look in the normal papers today, not just the scientific journals, and get to read something about chemistry.
所以希望你们在日常报纸,而不是科学杂志上阅读一些,关于化学的东西。
Science, particularly more advanced sciences like physics or chemistry, are all about unobservables.
科学,尤其是像物理,或者化学这样较为尖端的科学,研究的都是不可观测的事物。
But, I think what most of you, actually having MIT come to MIT, have probably realized is sometimes it's nice to major in a science, because you can't just pick up a reaction and do it in your kitchen on the weekend, where as you can sometimes join a book group and do that.
但我认为对你们大多数人来说,既然来了,可能已经意识到最好是主修一门科学,因为你不能在你,周末的时候在厨房里做化学实验,然后你就可以参加一个读书俱乐部。
So, these are all the fundamentals that are involved in chemistry that relate to physical chemistry, organic chemistry, inorganic chemistry, biological chemistry, and are a solid foundation for studying any kind of life science.
所必须知道的最基本的化学知识,这些都是和物理化学,有机化学,无机化学,生物化学有关的基础知识,也是学任何生命科学的基础。
And the reason I was able to do that and keep with what my original intentions were was to have a career that was the fulfilling, in terms of helping people and being engaged in science, is all of a sudden I realized, as chemists, we can think about better ways to build molecules that are important for making medications.
我能够这么做,并且能不和我原来的打算冲突,是因为我的职业很有意义,能帮助他人,又和科学相关,于是突然我意思到,作为一个化学家,我们可以思考出更好的办法,制造出在制药方面十分有用的分子。
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