It was so intuitive, so sensible that the Earth was the center of the universe that astronomers found ways to explain those seemingly inconsistent phenomena within the geocentric view.

天文学家们认为，“地球是宇宙的中心”这种说法是非常直观、合情合理的，以至于当他们发现与地心论不符的现象时，也会想办法找理由去解释。

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Gazing down on the city from the Getty Center, an art museum in the Santa Monica Mountains, one would find the view of the Pacific Ocean blurred by the haze.

从位于圣塔莫尼卡山脉的艺术博物馆——盖蒂中心俯瞰这座城市，你会发现太平洋的景色因雾霾而一片模糊。

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In my view, children need clear rules, but more than that they need to learn how to get on with other people and realize they are not the center of the world.

在我看来，孩子们需要明确的规则，但更多的是他们需要学会如何与他人相处，并意识到他们不是世界的中心。

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now on view at the Smithsonian Institution's S.Dillon Ripley Center.

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That's a view shared by Gregory Jaffe at the consumer group, the Center for Science in the Public Interest.

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A new report by the PEW Center on Global Climate Change, an independent policy research group, echoes the president's view.

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"I think this is probably the only definitively habitable environment that we have described and recorded, " said David Blake, a scientist at NASA's Ames Research Center in Mountain View, Calif.

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The story is similar for Dallas's Valley View Center.

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"We have so many more worlds that could be a locus for life, but so much less information upon which to understand the habitability of that world, " said astrobiologist Tori Hoehler at NASA's Ames Research Center in Mountain View, Calif.

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