I'm going to do that at the end for this reason: that it has such a special place in the imagination of our culture.
但是现在我放到最后讲是因为:,它在提供我们文化的想象力方面地位如此特殊。
We're able to think about the farthest reaches of the universe and ask what our place is in the universe.
我们可以思考宇宙最远的可到达处,并问我们在宇宙中的位置是什么。
And where we where at the start of the 20th Century in the late 1890's is that we were at a place where there was great confidence in our understanding of the universe, and our understanding of how all matter worked.
0世纪开始讲起,在19世纪的九十年代,人们对于自己,对自然的理解,对自然所有物质,如何工作的理解十分自信。
But if we wanna find that tradition of suffering in Christianity and our own country, I think the strongest place to find it is among the salves and their culture.
但是,当试图找到受苦的源头时,不论是基督教,还是在美国,我认为,最能代表它的,就是奴隶和奴隶文化。
Bridges have really changed our society and allowed us to get from one place to another in ways that we couldn't have gotten to easily before.
桥梁改变了我们这个社会,使我们能够以前所未有便捷方式,从一个地方到达另一个地方
I'll take this even a step further, even though there is no research about this, I bet you this is correct: there is no difference in our levels of wellbeing if our place of residents is by the river or in the .
我会进一步说明,虽然还没有这方面的研究,我敢和你们打赌,下面的说法是正确的:,我们的幸福水平不会有所不同,不论我们是生活在河边,还是呆在监狱。
And his answer is because the top god of our world, Marduk, appointed me in that place and I'm doing what he wants me to do, and if you cross me you cross him, and that's bad news.
马杜克:巴比伦城的守护神,我的所作所为受神明的指引,冒犯我就是冒犯神明,这可不是件好消息"
So, you can understand they really felt quite confident at this time that we could explain everything that was going on and in fact, a really telling quote from the time was said by a professor at the University of Chicago, and what he said is, "Our future discoveries must be looked for in the sixth decimal place."
所以你可以理解,为什么当时的人那么,自信的说我们可以解释,这世界上发生的一起事情,事实上,当时有个著名的名言,是芝加哥大学的一个教授说的,他说“我们今后的科学发现,就在于弄清楚小数点第六位后的数,“
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