Does the Taliban have a point of view on physics that is worth considering? No. 难道塔利班对物理学的意见也值得我们考虑吗？不。 How is their ignorance any less obvious on the subject of human well-being? 但他们对幸福的无知和他们对物理的无知有什
We have to recognize that real faith has no easy answers. 我们须认识到真正的信仰，从来没有简单答案 It's difficult and stubborn. 它是困难的、固执而不顺从的 It involves an ongoing struggle, 牵涉不间断的挣扎 a continual questioning of what
Another worrying thing: if you're selling sex in places like Kenya, South Africa or New York, 另一件令人担忧的事：如果你在肯尼亚，南非或纽约这些地方卖淫， a police officer can arrest you if you're caught carrying condoms,
In the space that used to house one transistor, we can now fit one billion. 在以前，可以放置一个晶体管的空间，现在可以放10亿个。 That made it so that a computer the size of an entire room now fits in your pocket. 这导致曾经占据了一整个房
Now, as an introvert, I might gently allude to certain "assholic" qualities in this man's behavior, 作为一名内向者，我也许会委婉地暗示这个人的行为确实比较混蛋， but I'm not going to lunge for the a-word. 但我不会直接使用
There is clearly a range of materials that constitute healthy food. 一个健康的饮食方式中有许多不同食物 But there's nevertheless a clear distinction between food and poison. 但从没有人会把食物和毒物搞错 The fact that there are m
In my lab, we recently made a cancer nanodetector 在我的实验室，我们最近研制出了一种癌症纳米检测器， that is so small that it could travel into the body and look for tumors. 小到可以进入全身血液循环并寻找肿瘤。 We designed it to listen for tum
And I can understand why the sex industry provokes strong feelings. 我可以理解为什么性产业会引发强烈的不满情绪。 People have all kinds of complicated feelings when it comes to sex. 当提到性的时候，人们都有很复杂的情绪。 But we can't make
And the more I thought about it, the more it made sense that he doubted, 我越想越觉得他的怀疑是源自于 because doubt is essential to faith. 怀疑是相信的必要部分 If this seems a startling idea at first, 如果最初听起来让人吃惊的话 consider
Well a sermon wants to change your life and a lecture wants to give you a bit of information. 宗教里的传教想改变你的生活，而一个演讲只是给你一些信息资料 And I think we need to get back to that sermon tradition. 我觉得我们有必要找回传教的习俗 Th
So listen, all of the work I've shown you, 听我说，我向你们展示的所有工作， the stuff that I've built that's all around me on this stage 我身边所有这些自己造出来的东西， and the other projects my lab is involved in 还有我的实
Now, let me spend the rest of my time on the third big problem, 现在，让我把余下的时间花在对第三个重大问题的探讨上。 because it's more subtle and perhaps difficult to grasp. 因为这个问题更加微妙，也可能难以把握。 Think about some time in you
Imagine that you invented a device 想象你发明了一种设备 that can record my memories, my dreams, my ideas, and transmit them to your brain. 能记录我的记忆、我的梦想、我的想法，并且传到你的大脑。 That would be a game-changing technology, r
I would say that there are many, many gaps in secular life and these can be plugged. 我觉得世俗的世界是有许多缺点的，但是那些缺点是可以被弥补的 It's not as though, as I try to suggest, 但这不是说 it's not as though either you
What I'm really curious about is if one day, 我真正好奇的是会不会有一天， it will be possible to repair, rebuild and augment our own bodies with stuff we make in the kitchen. 人们有可能修复、改造、强化我们自己的身体，用到的只是我们厨房里的材料。
Now, this nice picture shows a thought-balloon, a thought-bubble. 好了，这张图展示的是一个“思维泡泡”。 I think everybody understands what that means. 我想大家都知道这是什么意思。 That's supposed to exhibit the stream of conscio
He likes chocolate, he likes vanilla. 他喜欢巧克力，他喜欢香草 There's nothing that one should be able to say to the other that should persuade the other. 无论跟他们说什么，都不能改变他们。 Notice that we don't do this in
So I'm banging out my story and I know it's good, 我要大声地说出我的故事，我知道很好笑 and then I start to make it better - by adding an element of embellishment. 为了让故事更生动我会加点油、添点醋， Reporters call this "ma
I want to talk today about 今天我所要讲的是 I've been asked to take the long view, 他们让我谈谈长远的观点 and I'm going to tell you what I think are the three biggest problems for humanity from this long point o
My view is that museums should take a leaf out of the book of religions. 我觉得艺术馆应该向宗教学习 And they should make sure that when you walk into a museum -- if I was a museum curator, 艺术馆应该确保，当游客走进馆内时候--如果我是馆
