在这个国家有太多的人，包括我们选举出来的部分领导人，仍然不明白科学的运作方式，也不明白稳健、长期的投资对研究来说的重要性。

Too many people in this country, including some among our elected leadership, still do not understand how science works or why robust, long-range investments in research vitally matter.

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首先，一个成功的科学家似乎都充满了好奇心——他想知道宇宙是如何运作的以及为什么会这样。

First of all, it seems that a successful scientist is full of curiosity—he wants to find out how and why the universe works.

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休谟在理解一般科学是如何运作的问题上承袭了这个模式。

So that is taken by Hume to be a model for how science in general can operate.

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Our best science suggests that a well-functioning body can perform these things, can think and plan and fall in love by virtue of the fact that the brain is functioning properly.

现今科学认为,一个运作良好的肉体能够做到以下事情,思考,规划,以及彼此相爱,这都得益于,大脑的正常运作

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