The parts of the enterprise which are scientifically the most exciting are unlikely to be militarily useful. I am thinking here of the development of new kinds of lasers.

这份计划中，从科学角度看最让人兴奋的部分在军事上却可能无用。我指的是新型激光开发。

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In the development of Western technology, it has been non-verbal thinking, by and large, that has fixed the outlines and filled in the details of our material surroundings.

在西方科技的发展中，非语言思维大体上固定了我们物质环境的轮廓，并填充了细节。

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To start out I'm going to go back to the thinking about development a little bit, embryonic development, and show you a picture here.

作为这节课的开始,我先稍微回顾一下,一些关于发育过程的内容,先说胚胎发育,这里有张图

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In other words, he's thinking about the development of Western culture.

换句话说，德里达在思考西方文化的发展。

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And so what we can do, and must do, is to devote much more of our time and effort to thinking about development in the developing world because that's an issue of peace which affects us directly.

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So instead of having governments that are emphasizing the building of racetracks and baseball stadiums, we need to have economic development planning for our municipal areas where we're thinking about the development and production of high-end employment.

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The work by Yamanaka, Melton and Srivastava upended conventional thinking that cell development proceeds in one direction, moving step-by-step from primordial stem cells to fully differentiated adult cells.

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