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Complex, statistically improbable things are by their nature more difficult to explain than simple, statistically probable things.

  • -- Richard Dawkins 理查德·道金斯

从本质上讲，复杂的、统计上不可能发生的事情比简单的、统计上可能发生的事情更难解释。

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It has long been known that the chemical atomic weight of hydrogen was greater than one-quarter of that of helium, but so long as fractional weights were general there was no particular need to explain this fact, nor could any definite conclusions be drawn from it.

人们早就知道氢的化学原子量大于氦的四分之一，但只要分数权重是一般的，就没有必要特别解释这个事实，也不能从中得出任何明确的结论。

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It is nearly always the most improbable things that really come to pass.

真正发生的事情几乎总是最不可能发生的事情。

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Science and literature are not two things, but two sides of one thing.

科学和文学不是两个东西，而是同一事物的两个方面。

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Farce treats the improbable as probable, the impossible as possible.

闹剧把不可能的事当作可能，把不可能的事当作可能。

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Love is an endless mystery, for it has nothing else to explain it.

爱是一个无穷无尽的谜，因为没有别的东西可以解释它。

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Secrets are things we give to others to keep for us.

秘密是我们交给别人为我们保留的东西。

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