Animals can adapt to problems and make inventions, but often no faster than natural selection can do its work - the world acts as its own simulator in the case of natural selection.

  • -- Vernor Vinge 弗诺·文奇

动物能够适应问题并做出发明,但往往并不比自然选择发挥作用的速度快——在自然选择的例子中,世界充当着自己的模拟器。

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I believe in human dignity as the source of national purpose, human liberty as the source of national action, the human heart as the source of national compassion, and in the human mind as the source of our invention and our ideas

我相信人的尊严是国家目标的源泉,人的自由是国家行动的源泉,人的心灵是国家同情的源泉,人的思想是我们发明和思想的源泉

A major one which no one can overlook is technological and based on inventions and discoveries which have altered the whole basis of production and deeply affected social relations.

一个不容忽视的重要因素是技术,它是以改变整个生产基础和深刻影响社会关系的发明和发现为基础的。

The Earth we evolved to inhabit is turning into something more turbulent and unreliable at a pace too fast for most living things to adapt to.

我们赖以生存的地球正以一种大多数生物无法适应的太快的速度变得更加动荡和不可靠。

There is a sort of theory that you should adapt bad books because they always make more successful films.

有一种理论认为,你应该改编烂书,因为它们总是能拍出更成功的电影。