I'm not saying we should not cry or we shouldn't be sad but surely he wouldn't have wanted us to sit around and be miserable.

我不是说我们不应该哭或者不应该哀恸，但毫无疑问，我的叔叔肯定不愿意我们这么难过地围坐在这里。

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"We were subjected to vast criticism and not a little personal abuse from personal colleagues and others whose most frequent cry was that we should not play God and we should not interfere with nature, " he said.

WSJ: Robert Edwards, Pioneer of In Vitro Fertilization