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Is it philosophical, is it quite allowable, to assume without evidence from fossil plants that the family or any of the genera was once larger and wide spread? and occupied a continuous area?

  • -- Asa Gray ASA灰色

在没有化石植物证据的情况下，假定植物科或任何属曾经是更大、分布更广的，这是合乎哲学的吗?占据了一个连续的区域?

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正如人们一再指出的，在许多情况下得到直接实验证据支持的基本假设是，每个基因控制特定酶的产生、功能和特异性。

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When I was very young I was sort of floored by the fact that my mother and my father and everyone I knew was going to die one day, and myself too. I had a sort of a philosophical crisis. I couldn't believe that we were mortal.

当我很小的时候，我的父母和我认识的每一个人都有一天会死去，我自己也一样，这让我有点震惊。我有一种哲学上的危机。我不敢相信我们会死。

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我们脚下的大地，植物和生物，头顶上的云彩不断地融化成新的形状——大自然的每一份礼物都拥有自己的辐射能，被宇宙的和谐联系在一起。

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Lying is an attempt to bridge a gap, to connect our wishes and our fantasies, about who we wish we were, how we could be, with what we’re really like.

说谎是一种弥合鸿沟的尝试，连接我们的愿望和幻想，关于我们希望成为什么样的人，我们可以成为什么样的人，以及我们真实的样子。

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Psychoanalysts are not occupied with the minds of their patients; they do not believe in the mind but in a cerebral intestine.

精神分析学家并不专注于他们的病人的思想;他们不相信大脑，而是相信大脑的肠道。

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Most men make little use of their speech than to give evidence against their own understanding.

大多数人很少利用他们的言语，而是用证据来反对他们自己的理解。

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Ideas not coupled with action never become bigger than the brain cells they occupied.

没有付诸行动的想法永远不会比它们所占据的脑细胞更大。

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If you build up the soil with organic material, the plants will do just fine.

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