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进化
Evolution
And, you know, the fact is, if you believe in evolution, we all have a common ancestor, and we all have a common ancestry with the plant in the lobby. This is what evolution tells us. And, it's true. It's kind of unbelievable.
事实上，如果你相信进化论，我们都有一个共同的祖先，我们都和大厅里的植物有着共同的祖先。这就是进化告诉我们的。,这是真的。真是难以置信。
The belief that we somehow moved on to something else---whether still recognisably ourselves, or quite thoroughly changed---might be a tribute to our evolutionary tenacity and our animal thirst for life, but not to our wisdom.
我们不知何故转向了另一种东西——无论是仍然可以辨认出的自己，还是已经彻底改变了的自己——这一信念可能是对我们进化的坚韧性和动物对生命的渴望的赞颂，但不是对我们的智慧的赞颂。
In Darwin's time all of biology was a black box: not only the cell, or the eye, or digestion, or immunity, but every biological structure and function because, ultimately, no one could explain how biological processes occurred.
在达尔文的时代，所有的生物学都是一个黑盒子:不仅是细胞，眼睛，消化，免疫，还有所有的生物结构和功能，因为最终没有人能解释生物过程是如何发生的。
It is disturbing to discover in oneself these curious revelations of the validity of the Darwinian theory. If it is true that we have sprung from the ape, there are occasions when my own spring appears not to have been very far.
在自己身上发现达尔文理论有效性的这些奇怪的启示是令人不安的。如果我们确实是由无尾猿进化而来的，那么有时我自己的春天似乎并不遥远。
It is needless to say how great has been the influence of the doctrine of Evolution, or rather perhaps of the method of investigation to which it has given birth, upon the study of history, especially the history of institutions.
不用说，进化论，或者更确切地说，进化论所产生的研究方法，对历史的研究，特别是制度的历史，产生了多么大的影响。
As has repeatedly been stated, the underlying hypothesis, which in a number of cases has been supported by direct experimental evidence, is that each gene controls the production, function, and specificity of a particular enzyme.
正如人们一再指出的，在许多情况下得到直接实验证据支持的基本假设是，每个基因控制特定酶的产生、功能和特异性。
Music is one of those things that is constantly going in my head all the time. It's sort of like the evolution and creation of doing food, or my philosophy about wine. It's always beating in my head, so it keeps the spirit moving.
音乐是我脑海中一直萦绕的东西之一。这有点像做食物的进化和创造，或者我对葡萄酒的哲学。它一直在我的脑海里跳动，所以它让我的精神继续前进。
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。
Even when Darwin's teaching first made its appearance, it became clear at once that its scientific, materialist core, its teaching concerning the evolution of living nature, was antagonistic to the idealism that reigned in biology.
甚至当达尔文的学说第一次出现的时候，它的科学的、唯物主义的核心，即关于生命自然进化的学说，就立刻变得清晰起来，它与生物学中盛行的唯心主义是对立的。
There are the further difficulties of building a population out of a diversity of races, each at a different stage of cultural evolution, some in need of restraint, many in need of protection; everywhere a bewildering Babel of tongues.
从不同的种族中建立一个人口群，每一个种族都处于不同的文化演变阶段，其中一些需要限制，许多需要保护，这还有进一步的困难;到处都是令人眼花缭乱的语言。
We are glorious accidents of an unpredictable process with no drive to complexity, not the expected results of evolutionary principles that yearn to produce a creature capable of understanding the mode of its own necessary construction.
我们是一个不可预测的过程的光荣意外，没有复杂性的驱动，而不是渴望产生一种能够理解自身必要构造模式的生物的进化原则的预期结果。
The Burgess Shale is not unique, but for those who study evolution and fossils it has become something of an icon. It provides a reference point and a benchmark, a point of common discussion and an issue of universal scientific interest.
伯吉斯页岩并非独一无二，但对于那些研究进化论和化石的人来说，它已成为某种象征。它提供了一个参考点和基准，一个共同讨论的点和一个具有普遍科学意义的问题。
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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。
We see that science is eminently perfectible, and that each theory has constantly to give way to a fresh one.
我们看到科学是非常完美的，每一个理论都必须不断地让位给一个新的理论。
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。
At a minimum, in explaining evolutionary pathways through time, the constraints imposed by history rise to equal prominence with the immediate advantages of adaptation.
至少，在解释贯穿时间的进化路径时，历史施加的约束与适应的直接优势同等重要。