We are glorious accidents of an unpredictable process with no drive to complexity, not the expected results of evolutionary principles that yearn to produce a creature capable of understanding the mode of its own necessary construction.

  • -- Stephen Jay Gould 斯蒂芬·杰·古尔德

我们是一个不可预测的过程的光荣意外,没有复杂性的驱动,而不是渴望产生一种能够理解自身必要构造模式的生物的进化原则的预期结果。

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That's absolutely correct and in addition to that life just isn't an accident of the laws of physics. There's a long list of experiments that suggest just the opposite.

这是绝对正确的,除此之外,生命并不是物理定律的偶然。有一长串的实验表明恰恰相反。

Change should be a friend. It should happen by plan, not by accident.

改变应该是朋友。这应该是有计划的,而不是偶然的。