That the variability of an organism to a certain extent is a constant and certain condition of life we admit, otherwise there would be no distinguishable individuals of a species.

  • -- Richard Owen 理查德·欧文

生物体在一定程度上的变异性是一种恒定的生命状态,我们承认,否则就不会有一个物种中可区分的个体。

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Politics disappears; it vanishes. What remains constant is human life. So I try to develop a perspective in my writing where politics is just one of the pieces of furniture in this furnished world. It is not the purpose. It is not the goal.

政治就消失了;它就消失了。不变的是人类的生命。所以我试着在我的写作中发展一种观点,政治只是这个家具世界中的一件家具。这不是目的。这不是我们的目标。

In the course of my stay there, I also showed how one could analyse the experimental kinetic curves for the reaction of haemoglobin with carbon dioxide or oxygen by simulations in the computer, and so fit the rate constants.

在我呆在那里的过程中,我还展示了如何通过计算机模拟分析血红蛋白与二氧化碳或氧气反应的实验动力学曲线,从而符合速率常数。

You can learn all about the human condition from covering the crime beat in a big city - you don't need to go to Beirut for that - but a foreign correspondent begins to understand poverty from a different perspective.

你可以从报道大城市的犯罪现场了解到人类的所有状况——你不需要去贝鲁特报道——但一名外国记者开始从一个不同的角度理解贫困。

The world is in such a bad condition that if they don't find what you call a redeemer, every man, woman and child on this planet will be eliminated.

世界处于如此糟糕的境地,如果他们找不到你所说的救世主,这个星球上的每一个男人、女人和孩子都会被消灭。

I pick my nose and I'm not ashamed to admit it. If there's a bogey then just pick it, man.

我挖鼻孔,我并不羞于承认。如果有妖怪,就挑吧,伙计。

Sometimes the only way to be above things is to admit that we are below them.

有时候,超越一切的唯一方法就是承认我们低于它们。