1·Huxley speculated that a coat of hair would insulate against loss of body heat and might streamline the body to reduce drag in flight.
赫胥黎推测,一层毛发可以隔离身体热量的流失,并可能使身体呈现流线型,以减少飞行中的阻力。
2·Huxley reasoned that flying vertebrates must have been warm-blooded because flying implies a high rate of metabolism, which in turn implies a high internal temperature.
赫胥黎推断,会飞的脊椎动物一定是温血动物,因为飞行意味着较高的新陈代谢率,而新陈代谢率又意味着较高的内部温度。
3·Charles Darwin, as well as others like T.H. Huxley and Charles Lyell, insisted the age of the Earth must be in the hundreds of millions.
查尔斯·达尔文,以及像T.H.赫胥黎和查尔斯·莱尔则更坚持地球一定有上亿岁了。
4·Time is the most impartial, to any person is twenty-four hours; time is also selfish, to anyone not twenty-four hours. -- Huxley.
时间最不偏私,给任何人都是二十四小时;时间也是偏私,给任何人都不是二十四小时。——赫胥黎。
5·Thomas Huxley, Darwin's ally in the fight to get evolution accepted, spoke warmly of the facility with which ugly facts can kill beautiful theories.
托马斯·赫胥黎这个支持达尔文进化论的战友,说过,那些看起来不怎么好看,却温暖的装备可以抹杀漂亮的理论。