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Life will continue to be a journey of discovery if you tend the fires of curiosity that burn brightly in all of us
生命是一場持續發現的旅程只有好奇心的火焰 能夠照亮我們未來的前路
Such curiosity led Eric Kandel here at NYU, to his lifetime goal to discover the chemical and cellular basis of human memory
正是這份好奇心讓埃里克·坎德爾能夠在紐約大學實現他的人生目標他在這里發現了人類記憶的化學和細胞基礎
A few years after his graduation, he was doing research on cats
畢業之后的幾年里 他本應當對貓進行研究
But he had the idea of focusing on an animal with a simpler, more fundamental brain: the California sea slug
但他突然想到一個點子 要研究一種腦部結構更簡單更基本的動物加利福尼亞海參
His colleagues all but ridiculed him for the idea
這個想法遭到了同事們的嘲笑
They "knew"that the study of the lowly sea slug was irrelevant for understanding human memory Kandel's surgically-skilled collaborator deserted him
他們認為對低等海參的研究 同人類記憶的理解毫無關聯具有手術技術的合作者也拋棄了坎德爾
To get up to speed on sea slugs, he had to go abroad to study
為了加快對海參的研究 他不得不出國研究
But Kandel persistedand in 2000 his curiosity won him the Nobel Prize
坎德爾堅持了下來2000年 他的好奇心為他贏得了諾貝爾獎
It was, as you must have guessed, for deciphering the chemistry of memory in humans as revealed by his research on sea slugs
他貢獻卓著 破譯了人類記憶的化學本質這些都是通過對海參的研究取得的
