There is a better reason for studying zoology than its possible ‘usefulness’, and the general likeableness of animals. This reason is that we animals are the most complicated and perfectly designed pieces of machinery in the known universe. Put it like that, and it is hard to see why anybody studies anything else!

  • -- Richard Dawkins 理查德·道金斯

研究动物学有一个比它可能的“有用性”和动物的普遍可爱性更好的理由。这是因为我们动物是已知宇宙中最复杂、设计最完美的机器。这么说吧,很难理解为什么有人要学习其他东西!

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The film camera's ability to physically move through space, not zoom through space - every time we have a video camera the movement is through zoom; every time we have a film camera it is a physical movement.

胶片相机在空间中运动的能力,而不是在空间中变焦的能力——每次我们有摄像机时,运动都是通过变焦的;每次我们有一个胶片相机,它都是一个物理运动。

The ranch was raw land when I bought it and, for better or worse, I have designed every aspect of it from the corrals, the arena, to the barn, to the house.

当我买下牧场的时候,它还是一片未开发的土地,无论好坏,从畜栏、竞技场、谷仓到房子,它的方方面面都是我设计的。

My parents used to take me to the pet department and tell me it was a zoo.

我父母过去常带我去宠物部,告诉我那是一个动物园。

The urge for good design is the same as the urge to go on living.

对好的设计的渴望和对生活的渴望是一样的。