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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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Reduce the complexity of life by eliminating the needless wants of life, and the labors of life reduce themselves.

通过消除生活中不必要的欲望来减少生活的复杂性，生活的劳动也会减少自己。

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Man, of all the animals, is probably the only one to regard himself as a great delicacy.

在所有的动物中，人类可能是唯一把自己视为美味佳肴的动物。

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