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进化
Evolution
Anxiety is a natural thing humans have. You know, that's how we evolve. That's how we are, you know, we think things through. Sometimes my mind just thinks things through a lot.
焦虑是人类的天性。我们就是这样进化的。我们就是这样，你知道的，我们会把事情想清楚。有时候我的大脑会想很多事情。
Evolution is a bankrupt speculative philosophy, not a scientific fact. Only a spiritually bankrupt society could ever believe it. Only atheists could accept this Satanic theory.
进化论是一种破产的思辨哲学，不是科学事实。只有精神上破产的社会才会相信这一点。只有无神论者才能接受这种撒旦理论。
If we turn to palaeontology to tell us about our biological evolution it is to prehistory that we look for evidence of the evolution of specifically human patterns of behaviour.
如果我们求助于古生物学来告诉我们我们的生物进化，那么我们寻找特定人类行为模式进化的证据就是求助于史前。
The current understanding was that it was impossible to predict how something would evolve because it was a very turbulent environment full of things interacting with each other.
目前的理解是，不可能预测事物将如何演变，因为这是一个非常动荡的环境，充满了相互作用的事物。
Hominid and human evolution took place over millions and not billions of years, but with the emergence of language there was a further acceleration of time and the rate of change.
原始人类和人类的进化经历了数百万年而不是数十亿年，但随着语言的出现，时间和变化速度进一步加快。
I have called this principle, by which each slight variation, if useful, is preserved, by the term of Natural Selection, in order to mark its relation to man’s power of selection.
我把这一原则称为自然选择原则，根据这一原则，每一个微小的变化，如果有用的话，都用自然选择的术语加以保留，以便标明它与人类的选择能力之间的关系。
The fact - not theory - that evolution has occurred and the Darwinian theory as to how it occurred have become so confused in popular opinion that the distinction must be stressed.
进化论已经发生的事实，而不是理论，以及达尔文关于进化论如何发生的理论，在大众观点中变得如此混乱，以至于必须强调两者之间的区别。
Both of these branches of evolutionary science, are, in my opinion, in the closest causal connection; this arises from the reciprocal action of the laws of heredity and adaptation.
在我看来，进化科学的这两个分支，有着最密切的因果关系;这是遗传规律和适应规律相互作用的结果。
I think that many of my ideas are correct, but I'll bet you, before my death other discoveries will be made that will prompt me to alter various ideas I have about human evolution.
我想我的许多想法都是正确的，但我敢打赌，在我死之前，会有其他的发现促使我改变我对人类进化的各种想法。
The human species is, to some extent, the result of mistakes which arrested our development and prevented us from assuming the somewhat unglamorous form of our primitive ancestors.
在某种程度上，人类是错误的结果，这些错误阻碍了我们的发展，使我们无法像我们的原始祖先那样，采取多少有些乏味的形式。
The evolution of humans can not only be seen as the grand total of their wars; it is also defined by the evolution of the human mind and the development of the human consciousness.
人类的进化不仅可以看作是人类战争的总和;它也被定义为人类思想的进化和人类意识的发展。
The existing and long-standing use of the word 'evolution' in our state's textbooks has not adversely affected Georgians' belief in the omnipotence of God as creator of the universe.
我国教科书中“进化论”一词的现有和长期使用并没有对格鲁吉亚人对上帝作为宇宙创造者的全能的信念产生不利影响。
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It was Nietzsche who first made us conscious of the significance of the individual as a term in the evolutionary process-in that part of the evolutionary process which has still to take place.
尼采首先让我们意识到个人在进化过程中作为一个术语的重要性——这是进化过程中仍需发生的部分。
Design can never be an ultimate explanation for anything. It can only be a proximate explanation. A plane or a car is explained by a designer but that's because the designer himself, the engineer, is explained by natural selection.
设计永远不可能是对任何事情的最终解释。这只能是一个近似的解释。飞机或汽车是由设计师来解释的，但那是因为设计师本身，即工程师，是由自然选择来解释的。
But when you are embodied in a location, in a physical plant, in a set of people, and in a common history, that constrains your evolution and your ability to evolve in certain directions.
但是当你身在一个地方，在一个物理植物里，在一群人里，在一个共同的历史里，这就限制了你的进化和你向特定方向进化的能力。
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。
Philip is a living example of natural selection. He was as fitted to survive in this modern world as a tapeworm in an intestine.
菲利普就是自然选择的活生生的例子。他就像肠中的绦虫一样适合在现代社会生存。