It cannot but happen...that those will survive whose functions happen to be most nearly in equilibrium with the modified aggregate of external forces... This survival of the fittest implies multiplication of the fittest.

  • -- Herbert Spencer 赫伯特·斯宾塞

它不得不发生……那些在外力的修正作用下,其功能几乎达到平衡的行星将会幸存下来。适者生存意味着适者生存的乘法。

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A drunkard in the gutter is just where he ought to be, according to the fitness and tendency of things. Nature has set upon him the process of decline and dissolution by which she removes things which have survived their usefulness.

一个酒鬼在阴沟里正是他应该呆的地方,这是根据事情的发展趋势而定的。大自然给他安排了一个衰微和解体的过程,通过这个过程,她除去了那些无用的东西。

All art is a kind of confession, more or less oblique. All artists, if they are to survive, are forced, at last, to tell the whole story; to vomit the anguish up.

所有的艺术都是一种忏悔,或多或少有些隐晦。所有的艺术家,如果他们想生存下去,最终都会被迫讲述整个故事;把痛苦吐出来。