Natural abilities are like natural plants that need pruning by study.

天生的才干如同天生的植物一样，需要靠学习来修剪。英国哲学家培根。

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Natural abilities are like natural plants, that need pruning by study, and studies themselves do give forth directions too much at large, except they be bounded in by experience.

天生的能力好像天然生成的植物，必须通过学习加以修整；然而学习本身如若不由实践去约束，必然方向纷杂而漫无目的。

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Natural abilities are like natural plants that need pruning by study. Francis.

天生的才干如同天生的植物一样，需要靠学习来修剪。

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Modern evolutionary biology as we understand it, which is to say variation via genetic drift, mutations, duplications combined with the pruning filter of natural selection, certainly explains a great deal.

FORBES: Evolution and Embodied Physiology