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进化
Evolution
The brutalities of progress are called revolutions. When they are over we realize this: that the human race has been roughly handled, but that it has advanced.
进步的残酷被称为革命。当它们结束时，我们意识到:人类受到了粗暴的对待，但它已经进步了。
We must however acknowledge, as it seems to me, that man with all his noble qualities...still bears in his bodily frame the indelible stamp of his lowly origin.
然而，我们必须承认，在我看来，这个人与他所有的高贵品质…他的身体上仍然带有他卑微出身的不可磨灭的印记。
But naturalists are now beginning to look beyond this, and to see that there must be some other principle regulating the infinitely varied forms of animal life.
但是，现在自然学家们已经开始把眼光放远了，他们看到，一定还有其他的原则在调节着无限变化的动物生命形式。
Mr. Darwin refers to the multitude of the individual of every species, which, from one cause or another, perish either before, or soon after attaining maturity.
达尔文先生指的是每一个物种个体的数量，由于某种原因，这些个体要么在成熟之前死亡，要么在成熟之后不久死亡。
A major fault, for example, is the fact that, along with the materialist principle, Darwin introduced into his theory of evolution reactionary Malthusian ideas.
例如，一个主要的错误是，达尔文连同唯物主义原则一起，把反动的马尔萨斯思想引入了他的进化论。
No single discovery from any of these fields denotes proof of evolution, but together they reveal that life evolved in a certain sequence by a particular process.
这些领域的任何一项发现都不能证明进化的存在，但它们共同揭示了生命是通过特定的过程以特定的顺序进化的。
We must, however, acknowledge, as it seems to me, that man with all his noble qualities... still bears in his bodily frame the indelible stamp of his lowly origin.
然而，我们必须承认，在我看来，这个人的所有高尚品质……他的身体上仍然带有他卑微出身的不可磨灭的印记。
For the first half of geological time our ancestors were bacteria. Most creatures still are bacteria, and each one of our trillions of cells is a colony of bacteria.
在地质时代的前半部分，我们的祖先是细菌。大多数生物仍然是细菌，我们数万亿个细胞中的每一个都是细菌的集落。
People talk about innovations and evolutions and that kind of thing; I don't understand about that nonsense. It's like, all instruments are there to use all the time.
人们谈论创新和进化之类的事情;我不懂那些废话。就像，所有的仪器都可以随时使用。
Some theists in evolutionary science acquiesce to these tacit rules and retain a personal faith while accepting a thoroughly naturalistic picture of physical reality.
进化科学中的一些有神论者默认这些默认的规则，并保留着个人的信仰，同时接受物理现实的完全自然主义图景。
Other people have noticed more of an evolution than I have and so I'll try to tell you where I'm coming from and also relate it to what I think other people perceive.
其他人比我注意到了更多的进化，所以我会试着告诉你们我从何而来，并把它与我认为其他人的感知联系起来。
We are survival machines---robot vehicles blindly programmed to preserve the selfish molecules known as genes. This is a truth which still fills me with astonishment.
我们是生存机器——被盲目编程以保护自私分子基因的机器人。这是一个令我至今仍感到惊讶的事实。
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I have not the slightest doubt that this form of individuation represents a higher stage in the evolution of mankind.
我毫不怀疑，这种个性化的形式代表着人类进化的更高阶段。
The Theory of Evolution has more holes in it than a dam made out of Swiss cheese.
进化论的漏洞比瑞士奶酪做的水坝还多。
Each one of us decides to incarnate upon this planet at a particular point in time and space. We have chosen to come here to learn a particular lesson that will advance us upon our spiritual, evolutionary pathway.
我们每一个人都决定化身在这个星球上的特定时间和空间点上。我们选择来到这里来学习一个特殊的课程，它将推进我们灵性的进化之路。
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。
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。
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。