"We have to give them guarantees that we have taken the power not to cut everything but in order to improve."

VOA: standard.2009.03.20

You need hybrids, in order to improve the category of what you're doing.

你必须用杂交来改良品种

耶鲁公开课 - 古希腊历史简介课程节选

Francis Bacon, influenced by Machiavelli, urged human beings to employ their reason to force nature to give up its secrets, to treat nature like a woman, to master nature in order to improve man's material well being.

弗朗西斯·培根受到马基雅弗利的影响,提倡人们运用理性,来让自然原形毕露,像对待女人那样对待自然,去征服自然以提升人类的物质生活

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