It's Huxley that said woe to the slaying of a beautiful theory by an ugly fact, nuclear collapse.

赫胥黎说过,一个美丽的理论,被丑陋的事实所抹杀，核坍塌，真是科学的悲剧。

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So I went by night and fought against it from the break of dawn until noon, taking it and slaying all 7000 men, boys, women and girls and maid servants, for I had devoted them to destruction for the god Ashtar Chemosh", referring to herem. It is likely that such claims are hyperbolic in Moab and it is likely they were hyperbolic in Israel.

我连夜赶路，与它战斗,从破晓到正午，拿下了它,屠杀了全部7000个长幼男人和女人，还有女仆，我奉献他们给阿斯塔基摩神，这便是祭祀，这些很有可能是摩押的假设,他们在以色列也很有可能是虚构的。

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