【あなたの人生を変える英語】〜オンリーワンのあなたへ〜
興味深い記事なので紹介します。あなたを『オンリーワン』にしてくれるかもね。What makes you who you are?”ほとんどの人は、小さな円の中で、同じ事を繰り返している。その小さな円を抜けて、次の大きな円、更に大きな円へと飛び立つ人は、だんだんと少なくなる。””実は、より大きな円に飛び立つことで、未知の世界を発見できるのだ。行き過ぎは良くないけどね。ただのSFになってしまうから。この点は、気をつけないといけない。””だから、大事なのは、ぎりぎりの所まで行こうとする気持ちを持つ事だ。”Capecchi looks at science as a series of circles."The small circle is the one in wihch everyone is doing the same thing.As you move farther out,fewer people are wiling to go there, but you're charting new areas. Go too far,step out of bounds and you're in science fiction. So you have to be careful. But you want to be as close to the edge as possible"Nature or Nurture?Mr.Mario Capecchi is one of the three scientists who got this year's Nobel Prize for Medicine.He is different from the other two because of his backgrounds.(Nature=genes?)His grandmother was a painter,his uncle a renowned physicist, and his mother a poet.(Nurture=education,experience?)He used to be the starving,homeless Italian street kid who found his way to America,to Harvard,to Utah,ever the refugee,before finally getting the Noble Prize.He says,"What I found actually was just an opportunity" 天才とは、やはり遺伝と努力の両方だろうか?We could say he got the opportunity by himself and has developed into reality by his own creativity.His genes were part of it.