The difference between a tool and a machine is not capable of very precise distinction; nor is it necessary, in a popular explanation of those terms, to limit very strictly their acceptation.

  • -- Charles Babbage 巴贝奇

工具和机器之间的区别不能很精确地加以区分;在对这些术语的普遍解释中,也没有必要非常严格地限制它们的可接受性。

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Darwin based his theory on generalizations that were strictly empirical. You can go out and see that organisms do vary, that variations are inherited, and that every organism is capable of increasing its numbers in sufficiently favorable circumstances.

达尔文的理论是建立在严格经验主义的概括基础上的。你可以走出去,看到生物体确实在变化,变异是遗传的,每一个生物体都有能力在足够有利的环境下增加自己的数量。

People would ask me why I was doing what I was doing - but I always told them that I just loved to skate. There was no other explanation.

人们会问我为什么要做我正在做的事情,但我总是告诉他们我只是喜欢滑冰。没有其他解释。

The difference between an optimist and a pessimist? An optimist laughs to forget, but a pessimist forgets to laugh.

乐观主义者和悲观主义者的区别是什么?乐观的人笑着忘记,而悲观的人忘记笑。

And if you can offer an explanation as to why it doesn't work then you've got to the whole root of comedy.

如果你能解释为什么它不起作用,那么你就找到了喜剧的根源。

Im strictly for Stevenson. I don't dig the intellectual bit, but I'm telling you, man, he knows the most.

我完全支持史蒂文森。我不懂什么是智慧,但我告诉你,伙计,他知道的最多。

I've come to learn that there is a real difference between men and women. It's genetic.

我开始明白男人和女人之间是有区别的。这是遗传。