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Is it philosophical, is it quite allowable, to assume without evidence from fossil plants that the family or any of the genera was once larger and wide spread? and occupied a continuous area?

  • -- Asa Gray ASA灰色

在没有化石植物证据的情况下，假定植物科或任何属曾经是更大、分布更广的，这是合乎哲学的吗?占据了一个连续的区域?

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The best opinion now is, that there are multitudinous forms which are not sufficiently differentiated to be distinctively either plant or animal, while, as respects ordinary plants and animals, the difficulty of laying down a definition has become far greater than ever before.

现在最好的意见是，有许多形态没有足够的区别来区分植物或动物，而就普通的植物和动物而言，给它们下一个定义比以往任何时候都困难得多。

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What has always surprised me when I walk into a bookstore is the number of books that you can find that are written with certainty. The authors tell some story as though it's true, but they don't have any evidence that it is true!

当我走进一家书店时，总是让我感到惊讶的是，你能找到的确定无疑的书的数量。作者讲了一些故事，好像它是真的，但他们没有任何证据证明它是真的!

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I've had the thought that a person's 'artistic vision' is really just the cumulative combination of whatever particular stances he has sincerely occupied during his creative life - even if some of those might appear contradictory.

我曾经认为，一个人的“艺术视野”实际上只是他在创作生涯中所真诚地站在的特定立场的累积组合——即使其中一些可能看起来是矛盾的。

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Good and Bad is inside everybody. The difference is that the Good remember when they have also been bad and the Bad remember when they have only been good.

每个人的内心都有好坏之分。不同之处在于，好人记得他们也曾是坏人，而坏人只记得他们曾经是好人。

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Lying is an attempt to bridge a gap, to connect our wishes and our fantasies, about who we wish we were, how we could be, with what we’re really like.

说谎是一种弥合鸿沟的尝试，连接我们的愿望和幻想，关于我们希望成为什么样的人，我们可以成为什么样的人，以及我们真实的样子。

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I challenge record companies to show me evidence of a single penny they've lost due to Napster.

我向唱片公司提出挑战，要求他们拿出证据，证明纳普斯特让他们损失了一分钱。

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Ideas not coupled with action never become bigger than the brain cells they occupied.

没有付诸行动的想法永远不会比它们所占据的脑细胞更大。

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If you build up the soil with organic material, the plants will do just fine.

如果你用有机材料培植土壤，植物就会生长得很好。

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