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Why has not anyone seen that fossils alone gave birth to a theory about the formation of the earth, that without them, no one would have ever dreamed that there were successive epochs in the formation of the globe.

  • -- Georges Cuvier 乔治·居维叶

为什么没有人看到化石本身就产生了一种关于地球形成的理论呢?如果没有化石，没有人会想到地球的形成会有连续的时代。

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There are very few human beings who receive the truth, complete and staggering, by instant illumination. Most of them acquire it fragment by fragment, on a small scale, by successive developments, cellularly, like a laborious mosaic.

很少有人能从瞬间的光照中获得完整而惊人的真理。他们中的大多数人都是通过细胞的连续发展，在小范围内，一个片段一个片段地获得它，就像一个费力的马赛克。

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The earth is the earth as a peasant sees it, the world is the world as a duchess sees it, and anyway a duchess would be nothing if the earth was not there as the peasant sees it.

地球是农民眼中的地球，世界是公爵夫人眼中的世界，如果没有农民眼中的地球，公爵夫人就什么都不是。

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The metropolis reveals itself as one of those great historical formations in which opposing streams which enclose life unfold, as well as join one another with equal right.

大都市展现了自己作为一个伟大的历史形成，在其中对立的溪流包围着生活展开，并以平等的权利连接在一起。

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The confidence essential to effective habit-making comes as a rule from knowledge of previous and related successes.

自信对于有效的习惯形成至关重要，它来自于对过去和相关成功的了解。

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Nobody likes having salt rubbed into their wounds, even if it is the salt of the earth.

没有人喜欢把盐涂在伤口上，即使这是盐。

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There is no correlation between a childhood success and a professional athlete.

儿童时期的成功与职业运动员之间没有相关性。

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