I beg leave to thank you for the extremely kind and apprieciative manner in which you have received the toast of science. 请允许我为你们如此友善和赞赏地为科学干杯而深表感谢。 It is the more grateful to me to hear that toast proposed in an assembly of this kind. 我尤其感激在这般友善的大会上来为科学祝酒。 Because I have noticed of late years a great and growing tendency among those 因为事实上近些年我确实发现有些戏称自己是在前科学时代出生的人， who were once jestingly said to have been born pre-scientific age to look upon science as an invading and aggressive force, 正在酝酿一股很强大而且日渐强大的倾向，将科学视为入侵和占领的势力， which of it had find its own way, it would oust from the universe all other pursuits. 而且若假以时日，必将我们宇宙其他的事物驱逐出去。 I think there are many persons who look upon the new birth of our times 我想有很多人认为我们的时代是从现代头脑中爆发的怪物， as a sort of monster rising out of the sea of modern thought with the purpose of devouring the Andromeda of art.