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进化
Evolution
"The unfit die -- the fit both live and thrive." Alas, who says so? They who do survive.
“不健康的人会死——健康的人会活，也会茁壮成长。” 唉，谁这么说呢?他们活下来了。
There is no controversy within science over the core proposition of evolutionary theory.
进化论的核心命题在科学界没有争议。
The proof of evolution lies in those adaptations that arise from improbable foundations.
进化的证据在于那些从不可能的基础上产生的适应性。
The first step in the evolution of ethics is a sense of solidarity with other human beings.
道德进化的第一步是与他人团结一致。
The organic material, as the laws of chemistry state, can neither be created nor destroyed.
有机物质作为化学状态的规律，既不能被创造，也不能被破坏。
Natural selection is a mechanism for generating an exceedingly high degree of improbability.
自然选择是一种产生高度非概率的机制。
The theory of founder effects does not explain how novel features like plumage traits arise.
创始人效应理论并没有解释像羽毛特征这样的新特征是如何产生的。
Classifying the stars has helped materially in all studies of the structure of the universe.
对恒星进行分类对所有有关宇宙结构的研究都有重要的帮助。
I have often said that I am a passionate Darwinian when it comes to explaining why we exist.
我经常说，在解释我们为什么存在时，我是一个充满激情的达尔文主义者。
Scientific knowledge is in perpetual evolution; it finds itself changed from one day to the next.
科学知识在不断进化;它发现自己每天都在变化。
If natural selection can create creationists it can manage a caterpillar with a face on its arse.
如果自然选择能够创造出神创论者，那么它就能够管理屁股上长着一张脸的毛毛虫。
We observe closely related species in sympatry and infer how they evolved from a common ancestor.
我们在同域观察密切相关的物种，并推断它们是如何从一个共同的祖先进化而来的。
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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。
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。
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。
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。
All I claimed was that when a drastic change occurs, it occurs in a relatively small and isolated population.
我所声称的是，当一个剧烈的变化发生时，它发生在一个相对较小和孤立的群体中。
So we can't go backwards, we can only go where the evolutionary trajectory is taking us and attune our ideas about ourselves and our existence to that course.
因此，我们不能倒退，我们只能沿着进化的轨迹前进，把我们对自己和存在的想法调整到那个方向。