So you recognize patterns and then develop a model, and most desirably a quantitative model A quantitative model that explains the observations, obviously.But what Mendeleev did was he came up with a model that not only explained what we observed.

所以你们得到这些模式，发展成一个模型，和最令人向往的定量模型,一个定量模型明显地解释所有的观察结果，但是门捷列夫做的是,他提出的模型不仅解释了,我们观察到的东西。

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This is by the famous biologist, D'Arcy Thompson, who wrote the book On Growth and Form, and it's sort of the model of many developmental psychologists and many evolutionary psychologists so I'll end with this: "Everything is the way it is because it got that way."

这是著名的生物学家,达西·汤普森所提出的,他写了一本叫做《论生长和形态》的书,这句话也是许多发展心理学家,和进化心理学的理论模型,所以我用这句话来作为结束,"万物如此,皆因其本"

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