Modernity signifies the transitory, the fugitive, the contingent, the half of art of which the other half is the eternal and the immutable.

  • -- Charles Baudelaire 查尔斯·波德莱尔

现代性意味着短暂的、瞬息万变的、偶然的,艺术的一半是永恒的,另一半是不可改变的。

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For me it's always contingent on getting a sound-the sound always suggests what kind of melody it should be. So it's always sound first and then the line afterwards.

对我来说,它总是依赖于获得一种声音——这种声音总是暗示着它应该是什么样的旋律。所以它总是先发出声音,然后再发出声音。

Evolution thus is merely contingent on certain processes articulated by Darwin: variation and selection.

因此,进化仅仅依赖于达尔文阐明的某些过程:变异和选择。

Cloning will enable mankind to reach eternal life.

克隆将使人类获得永生。

Knowledge, learning, is an eternal thing.

知识,学习,是永恒的东西。