The major novelty of my theory was its claim that the most rapid evolutionary change does not occur in widespread, populous species, as claimed by Most geneticists, but in small founder populations.

  • -- Ernst Mayr 迈尔

我的理论的主要新颖之处在于,它声称,最迅速的进化变化并不像大多数遗传学家所声称的那样,发生在广泛的、人口众多的物种中,而是发生在创始人人数较少的群体中。

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Entropy theory is indeed a first attempt to deal with global form; but it has not been dealing with structure. All it says is that a large sum of elements may have properties not found in a smaller sample of them.

熵理论的确是第一次尝试处理全局形式;但它没有处理结构问题。它只是说,大量的元素可能具有在较小的样本中找不到的属性。

Every theory is a self-fulfilling prophecy that orders experience into the framework it provides.

每一种理论都是一种自我实现的预言,它将经验排列到它所提供的框架中。

A lot of why I do something is just the novelty of the experience.

我之所以做某件事,很大程度上是因为这种体验很新奇。

We must not be enticed from the true to the new.

我们决不能被诱惑从真实的事物转向新的事物。