It is a strange fact, characteristic of the incomplete state of our present knowledge, that totally opposite conclusions are drawn about prehistoric conditions on Earth, depending on whether the problem is approached from the biological or the geophysical viewpoint.
一个奇怪的事实是，根据是从生物学还是地球物理学的角度来探讨问题，关于地球史前条件的结论完全相反，这反映了我们目前知识的不完整状态。
预测未来的最好方法就是创造未来。
"I believe in the magic of cinema to transform and transcend."
The truth about the world, he said, is that anything is possible. Had you not seen it all from birth and thereby bled it of its strangeness it would appear to you for what it is, a hat trick in a medicine show, a fevered dream, a trance bepopulate with chimeras having neither analogue nor precedent, an itinerant carnival, a migratory tentshow whose ultimate destination after many a pitch in many a mudded field is unspeakable and calamitous beyond reckoning.