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。

Now I say I'm a diarist with an explanation I'll get back to you on. Someday I may try and write in memoir form.

现在我说我是一名日记作者,我会给你解释的。有一天,我可能会尝试以回忆录的形式写作。

Life is not way it's supposed to be. It's way it is. The way you cope with it is what makes the difference.

生活不是它应该的样子。事情就是这样。你处理问题的方式决定了结果。

I want to know what the difference between the essence of a man and woman is.

我想知道男人和女人的本质有什么不同。

Use anything I can't explain in five minutes.

用任何我无法在五分钟内解释清楚的东西。