Now it is established in the sciences that no knowledge is acquired save through the study of its causes and beginnings, if it has had causes and beginnings; nor completed except by knowledge of its accidents and accompanying essentials.

  • -- Avicenna 阿维森纳

现在在科学中已经确立了这样一种观点:如果有原因和开始,那么除了通过研究其原因和开始之外,就不可能获得任何知识;除非知道它的事故和伴随的要点,否则它不会完成。

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Attempts have been made from a study of the changes produced by mutation to obtain the relative order of the bases within various triplets, but my own view is that these are premature until there is more extensive and more reliable data on the composition of the triplets.

人们曾试图通过研究突变所产生的变化来获得不同三胞胎中碱基的相对顺序,但我个人的观点是,在有关于三胞胎组成的更广泛和更可靠的数据之前,这些都还为时过早。

Study first, play afterwards.

先学后玩。