Too often, the Star Trek franchise called to mind the end of history on an intergalactic scale.

前者的故事发生在宇宙前沿的一个空间站里，后者的故事则发生在另一个不同的银河系里。 《星际迷航》系列总是令人想到历史会终结在星际之间。

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Writing in his bestseller A Brief History Of Time in 1988, he said: "If we discover a complete theory, it would be the ultimate triumph of human reason – for then we should know the mind of God.

在其1988年的最佳畅销书《时间简史》中，霍金写道：“如果我们发现了一个完整的理论，它将成为人类理性的终极胜利，从此我们应当就可以了解上帝的思想”。

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The way we hear music, the way our mind processes music, is very, very different from this other kind of information, very different from history or economics.

我们接收音乐的方式，我们思绪的过程，与接受和思考任何其它的信息，比如历史，或者经济学，都是不同的。

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This is all fine and well but they will not get a job when they leave university that will be worth the tens of thousands of pounds the tax payer has had to pay for them to learn the finer points of medieval Scottish history or the closer details of the human mind.

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This is a catalogue of disaster which should not have happened in the first place bearing in mind the history of the guy in Canada.

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Not surprisingly, he does not discuss the many disasters that dot the history of public intervention (the Army Corps of Engineers and flood control come to mind).

ECONOMIST: American economic intervention