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This growth in the number, speed of formation, permanence, delicacy and complexity of associations possible for an animal reaches its acme in the case of man.

  • -- Edward Thorndike 桑代克

动物在数量、形成速度、持久性、精微性和复杂联想方面的增长在人类身上达到了极致。

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Science has sometimes been said to be opposed to faith, and inconsistent with it. But all science, in fact, rests on a basis of faith, for it assumes the permanence and uniformity of natural laws - a thing which can never be demonstrated.

科学有时被说成是与信仰对立的，而且与信仰不一致。但事实上，所有的科学都建立在信仰的基础上，因为它假定自然规律的持久性和统一性——这是永远无法证明的。

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A graphic representation of data abstracted from the banks of every computer in the human system. Unthinkable complexity. Lines of light ranged in the nonspace of the mind, clusters and constellations of data. Like city lights, receding.

从人类系统中每台计算机的数据库中抽象出来的数据的图形表示。不可思议的复杂性。光线在大脑的非空间、星系团和星系团中排列。就像城市的灯光，渐渐退去。

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Permanence, perseverance and persistence in spite of all obstacles, discouragement s, and impossibilities: It is this, that in all things distinguishes the strong soul from the weak.

尽管有种种障碍、挫折和不可能，但坚韧不拔、锲而不舍和坚持不懈，正是这一点使强者区别于弱者。

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The best translations cannot convey to us the strength and exquisite delicacy of thought in its native garb, and he to whom such books are shut flounders about in outer darkness.

即使是最好的译本，也无法向我们传达思想的力量和细腻，而对这样的书闭门不出的人，只能在外面的黑暗中挣扎。

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Chaos is complexity viewed through a reductionist filter.

混沌是通过还原论过滤器观察的复杂性。

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