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进化
Evolution
The most telling and profound way of describing the evolution of the universe would undoubtedly be to trace the evolution of love.
描述宇宙进化最生动、最深刻的方式无疑是追溯爱的进化。
Moreover, since the sun remains stationary, whatever appears as a motion of the sun is really due rather to the motion of the earth.
此外，由于太阳是静止不动的，所以无论出现什么运动，实际上都是由于地球的运动。
Evolution is no linear family tree, but change in the single multidimensional being that has grown to cover the entire surface of Earth.
进化不是线性的族谱树，而是生长到覆盖整个地球表面的单一多维存在的变化。
It is absolutely safe to say that if you meet somebody who claims not to believe in evolution, that person is ignorant, stupid or insane.
如果你遇到一个自称不相信进化论的人，你绝对可以说他无知、愚蠢或疯狂。
All evolutionary biologists know that variation itself is nature's only irreducible essence... I had to place myself amidst the variation.
所有进化生物学家都知道变异本身是自然界唯一不可还原的本质。我必须置身于变化之中。
Evolution is a part of nature. The world has strayed away from God, and now interprets its conception for the benefit of blissful ignorance.
进化是自然的一部分。这个世界已经偏离了上帝，现在为了幸福的无知而解释它的概念。
We are consciousness examining and expressing itself so that it can become increasingly aware of its infinite capacity for being and evolving.
我们正在意识检查和表达自己，以便它能越来越意识到自己存在和进化的无限能力。
Historians will have to face the fact that natural selection determined the evolution of cultures in the same manner as it did that of species.
历史学家将不得不面对这样一个事实:自然选择决定了文化的进化，就像自然选择决定了物种的进化一样。
We know evolution happened because innumerable bits of data from myriad fields of science conjoin to paint a rich portrait of life's pilgrimage.
我们知道进化之所以发生，是因为来自无数科学领域的无数数据汇聚在一起，为生命的朝圣之旅描绘了一幅丰富的画面。
In fact, death seems to have been a rather late invention in evolution. One can go a long way in evolution before encountering an authentic corpse.
事实上，死亡似乎是进化中一个相当晚的发明。在遇到一具真正的尸体之前，人类可以在进化过程中走很长的路。
Happiness is the exception-joy a rarity-the normal feeling most human beings have is discontent or longing... maybe there's an evolutionary purpose.
幸福是一种例外——一种罕见的快乐——大多数人的正常感觉是不满或渴望……也许这是进化的目的。
I had once repeated the experiment to reassure myself that this was so, and it was. Ashes to ashes; starch to sugar. A little window into the Creation.
我曾反复做过这个实验，以使自己确信这是事实，而且确实如此。遥遥无期;淀粉糖。一个小窗口进入创造。
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The decisive moment in human evolution is perpetual. That is why the revolutionary spiritual movements that declare all former things worthless are in the right, for nothing has yet happened.
人类进化的决定性时刻是永恒的。这就是为什么那些宣称过去的一切都是毫无价值的革命精神运动是正确的，因为还没有发生任何事情。
Evolutionary biologists are not content merely to explain how variation occurs within limits, however. They aspire to answer a much broader question-which is how complex organisms like birds, and flowers, and human beings came into existence in the first place.
然而，进化生物学家并不满足于解释变异是如何在一定范围内发生的。他们渴望回答一个更广泛的问题，那就是像鸟、花和人类这样复杂的生物体是如何产生的。
You know, there was a time, just before I started to study physical science, when astronomers thought that systems such as we have here in the solar system required a rare triple collision of stars.
你知道，有一段时间，就在我开始学习物理科学之前，天文学家们认为像我们太阳系这样的系统需要罕见的三次恒星碰撞。
Love is a sacred reserve of energy; it is like the blood of spiritual evolution.
爱是一种神圣的能量储备;它就像精神进化的血液。
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。
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。