Of all the passions of mankind, the love of novelty most rules the mind. In search of this, from realm to realm we roam. Our fleets come loaded with every folly home.

  • -- Shelby Foote 富特

在人类所有的激情中,对新奇事物的热爱支配着人们的思想。为了寻找这一点,我们从一个领域漫游到另一个领域。我们的舰队满载着蠢货返航。

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The major novelty of my theory was its claim that the most rapid evolutionary change does not occur in widespread, populous species, as claimed by Most geneticists, but in small founder populations.

我的理论的主要新颖之处在于,它声称,最迅速的进化变化并不像大多数遗传学家所声称的那样,发生在广泛的、人口众多的物种中,而是发生在创始人人数较少的群体中。

It is the nature of a man as he grows older- to protest against change, particularly changes for the better

随着年龄的增长,人的本性就是反对变化,特别是向好的变化

The only thing that will redeem mankind is cooperation.

唯一能挽救人类的是合作。

Nature conserves, prefers novelty.

大自然保守,喜欢新奇。