My own field of paleontology has strongly challenged the Darwinian premise that life's major transformations can be explained by adding up, through the immensity of geological time, the successive tiny changes produced generation after generation by natural selection.

  • -- Stephen Jay Gould 斯蒂芬·杰·古尔德

我自己的古生物学领域对达尔文主义的前提提出了强烈的挑战。达尔文的前提是,通过漫长的地质时间,将一代又一代自然选择产生的微小变化叠加起来,就可以解释生命的重大转变。

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In my job, whenever I delivered a presentation I would rehearse several times before the actual event. In sport, it is important to be equally prepared about my opponents.

在我的工作中,每当我发表演讲时,我都会在实际活动之前排练几次。在体育运动中,对我的对手同样做好准备是很重要的。

Every time you perform a magic trick, you're engaging in experimental psychology. If the audience asks, 'How the hell did he do that?' then the experiment was successful.

每次你表演魔术,你都是在从事实验心理学。如果观众问,‘他到底是怎么做到的?然后实验成功了。

How many a man has thrown up his hands at a time when a little more effort, a little more patience would have achieved success.

多少人曾经举手投降过,只要多一点努力,多一点耐心就能取得成功。

It is only what is written upon the soul of man that will survive the wreck of time.

只有写在人的灵魂上的东西才能在时间的毁灭中幸存下来。