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.

  • -- George C. Williams 乔治·威廉斯

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。

相关名言

My number-one goal is to never feel like I'm strictly defining myself. The minute I feel like I'm doing that as anything - as theatrical, as feminist, as songwriter - I feel like the minute I name it, I'm stuck in a box.

我的首要目标是永远不要觉得自己在严格定义自己。当我觉得我在做任何事情的那一刻——作为戏剧演员、女权主义者、作曲家——我觉得当我说出它的名字的那一刻,我就被困在了一个盒子里。

Our empirical criterion for a series of theories is that it should produce new facts. The idea of growth and the concept of empirical character are soldered into one.

我们对一系列理论的经验标准是,它应该产生新的事实。成长的概念和经验的特性的概念是结合在一起的。

Im strictly for Stevenson. I don't dig the intellectual bit, but I'm telling you, man, he knows the most.

我完全支持史蒂文森。我不懂什么是智慧,但我告诉你,伙计,他知道的最多。

All generalizations are dangerous, even this one.

所有的概括都是危险的,即使是这个。