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Extinction is the rule. Survival is the exception.

  • -- Carl Sagan 卡尔·萨根

灭绝是规律。生存是个例外。

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The great majority of people are calm, resourceful, altruistic or even beyond altruistic, as they risk themselves for others. We improvise the conditions of survival beautifully.

绝大多数人都是冷静的、足智多谋的、无私的，甚至超越无私，因为他们会为他人冒险。我们把生存条件完美地即兴创造出来。

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And while the law of competition may be sometimes hard for the individual, it is best for the race, because it ensures the survival of the fittest in every department.

虽然竞争法则有时对个人来说很难，但对种族来说却是最好的，因为它确保了适者生存。

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A thinker sees his own actions as experiments and questions--as attempts to find out something. Success and failure are for him answers above all.

一个思考者把自己的行为看作是实验和问题——即试图发现一些东西。成功和失败是他最重要的答案。

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Most evolving lineages, human or otherwise, when threatened with extinction, don't do anything special to avoid it.

大多数进化的血统，无论是人类还是其他物种，在面临灭绝的威胁时，都不会做任何特别的事情来避免它。

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Science fiction writers put characters into a world with arbitrary rules and work out what happens.

科幻小说作家把人物置于一个有任意规则的世界里，然后计算出发生了什么。

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In the landscape of extinction, precision is next to godliness.

在绝迹的景观中，精确是近乎神圣的。

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