If you come to believe, if you say to the world, "We are the hope of humans, we are the hope of earth, we are progress.

如果你开始相信,并向全世界发出宣言,"我们是人类的希望,是世界的希望,也是进步的力量

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He assumed that such a course would lead to progress and the general improvement of the human condition, and it was that sort of thinking that lay at the heart of the scientific revolution and remains the faith on which modern science and technology rest.

他认为这将会引领进步,全面提升人类的生存状况,正是这个学说成为了,科技革命的核心并为现代科学技术,的发展奠定了良好的基础

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And by the way, we, the people of progress, are rooted in those principles of the Declaration of Independence" which are written down essentially as creeds "And, oh and by the way, we have a written Constitution we actually wrote it down, we have a Bill of Rights where we declare these things on paper, unlike the Brits."

顺便说一下,我们,作为进步的人类,是独立宣言的主旨",它被写成文字,作为信条,"顺便再说一下,我们还有一部成文大宪章,我们把它写下来,我们有《人权法案》,一切白纸黑字申明清楚,不像那些英国佬"

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