With the emergence of civilization, the rate of change shifted from hundreds of thousands of years to millennia. With the emergence of science as a way of knowing the universe, the rate of change shifted to centuries.

-- William Irwin Thompson 威廉·厄文·汤普森

随着文明的出现，变化的速度从几十万年变成了几千年。随着科学作为了解宇宙的一种方式的出现，变化的速度转移到了几个世纪。

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I am pleased to be considered a 'denier' in this cause if this puts me in the class with those who defied prevailing 'scientific consensus' that the earth was flat and that the earth was the not the center of the universe.

我很高兴在这个问题上被认为是一个“否决者”，如果这让我和那些反对地球是平的、地球不是宇宙中心这一普遍的“科学共识”的人站在一起的话。

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If there hadn't been women we'd still be squatting in a cave eating raw meat, because we made civilization in order to impress our girlfriends.

如果没有女人，我们还会蹲在洞穴里吃生肉，因为我们创造文明是为了给我们的女朋友留下深刻的印象。

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Laws of nature have no physical properties of mass /energy. They are platonic truths in transcendent realm that create & govern the Universe.

自然定律没有质量/能量的物理性质。它们是超越领域的柏拉图真理，创造并统治着宇宙。

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The family is the nucleus of civilization.

家庭是文明的核心。

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