传闻微软要关闭msn sp。惶惶几天，原来是虚惊一场。继续灌水

演讲比赛的讲稿

 

Good evening and thank you all for coming.

 

It is my honor to have the opportunity to communicate with students from different institutes and share with you the pleasure and sufferings in the process of scientific research.  Although we step on different branches, involved in different subjects, inquire different issues, the motives we came and devoted ourselves to scientific research may hold something in common.

 

It might be the story of the exploratory and challenging life of a scientist that inspired us.  Or it might be the beauty and the principles lying in the mysteries of nature that intrigued us.  Or simply it was the process of experimental work itself that interested us.  Or it was a period of instructive and creative experience that we required.  No matter it was, we chose the same way with dream, hope, and passion. 

 

But gradually, the exciting part in the process of scientific research faded away.  The subtleness of nature, the complexity and ambiguity of published data, the difficulty of experiments, the obscurity of results and the pressure of qualification all began to reveal the cruelty of reality.

 

You find hardly an interesting and soluble question can be raised not because everything is clear but because nothing is sure.  Your hundreds or even thousands of hour tedious work produce only negative results.  Your most favored hypothesis proved to be incorrect by your own evidence.  Your almost finished work is surpassed or exciting discovery announced by others.  Or worst of all, your discovery published on top journals later proved to be a total artifact.

 

In a sense we are walking in moonless nights on a lightless path with no assurance where it would lead to.  Far behind us, the road is broad and sunny bright, which is lightened by previous scientists.  But we can not turn back.  We can never achieve more in the progress of understanding the nature simply by repeating previous work.  Not can we stop as long as we remain on the path, or we will be forever submerged by the darkness. 

 

When we face the endless darkness in front, quite often, we need a certain spiritual fortitude simply to keep going. 

 

You may be impeded by rough conditions.  You may be hindered by bad luck.  You may be dismayed by harsh criticism. 

But you can not change conditions.  You can not control luck.  You can not forbid criticism. So the only thing you can do is to keep going. 

 

Almost everyone, beginner or expert, who took up scientific research get stuck at one time or another. Francis Crick, one of the two scientists who proposed the double helix structure of DNA, spent two years trying to solve the problem of genetic code in vain before the introduction of messenger RNA.  Sydney Brenner, who shared an office and work with him on genetic code, examined every cell in C. elegans one by one with his colleagues when his destination remained obscure.  At this moment, some frustrated while some prevailed.  The only chance that you will prevail though without guarantee is to keep going.

 

To keep going does not mean work without thinking or think without doubt.  Our pursuit should be carefully chosen and fully understood.  Our hypothesis should be repeatedly examined and violently questioned.  Our method should be intensively considered and elaborately controlled.  Our result should be thoroughly observed and cautiously analyzed.  Our conclusion should be solidly based and faithfully drawn. 

And above all, we should always learn to take no for answer.  Take no with full convincement if it is so.  And keep going until we could hold in our hand a light, faint yet sustained, which will fill our hearts with courage and strength, illuminate the path underneath our feet, and enlighten through the darkness, an obscure yet hopeful future.

 

Thank you for your attention and good luck to all of you.

我决定给自己添置一双鞋，一双户外鞋。当我宣布这个决定时，得到的反应竟然是：你看起来不户外呀！？当我真正到商场专柜转悠，在导购向我推荐了几双鞋后我指着一双问那双轻便的如何时，得到的回答是：那是双女式的。于是我痛下决心，一定要买双专业点的户外鞋，然后开始驴行生涯。

 

于是我发现，在今天气温骤降的时候，我一个人撑着伞，穿着早已浸透的皮鞋，凄风冷雨中在巨鹿路长乐路户外店密集的一带来回兜着圈子。

 

梧桐的新绿掩映着雕花铁栏和黄色大门，恍惚间好像回到99年夏天的青岛。我和tinglily捧着一张地图，一路走过栈桥，走过八大关，走过五四广场，一直走到滨海大道。年轻不知疲倦的我们，就这样走啊走，仿佛世界就在脚下延伸开来。但后果很严重。青岛昼夜温差大，白天走出一身汗，晚上却透心凉，只好一边打着冷战一边冲凉。这种状况，直到海大的澡堂开放日才得到些许改善。昏黄的灯光下，站在年久失修的澡堂里排队等待热水龙头轮到我，心中无比怀念科大簇新宽敞而且天天开放的澡堂和简陋但是温馨的226。03年再次到青岛，不禁把那时的路又走了一遍，又想起清晨潮起时海边那些年轻的身影和无忧的欢笑。那时的鞋，经过我连日的折腾和最后一天在金沙滩的浸泡后，终于光荣退休早已不知去向。

 

巨鹿路长乐路一带，去年给小飞猪第二次当陪签小蜜时曾经走过。那天天好心情也好，一高兴就从南京西路梅陇镇伊势丹一路走来。走到长乐路时沿着街对面的花坛走来一个高挑白皙的美女，栗色小卷发，深邃的栗色眼睛藏在黑框眼镜后，大挎包的包带横绕过肩膀，使整个包随意搭在身后随着她走动的节奏上下跳跃。我似乎一向喜欢这种类型的女生，大学时就对0013那个南开女孩迷恋不已，只恨一直无缘结识。那之前我已经有点找不着北，当这个美女和我擦肩而过时，我终于彻底晕菜，以至于在陕西北路陕西南路乌鲁木齐北路乌鲁木齐南路间游荡多时，才找到归途。

 

据说每个女孩脚上都应该有双好鞋，会带她去想去的任何地方。我不奢望我的lafuma能带我去任何地方，只希望她在脚上我就有勇气一直走下去，走下去，咔咔咔，咔咔咔......如果可能，当我迷路的时候，只要闭上眼睛，脚尖互击三下，就能平安到家。