英国著名生物学家与教育家赫胥黎曾在一篇名为“A game of chess”的文字指出： The chess-board is the world: the pieces are the phenomena of the universe; the rules of the game are what we call the laws of nature. The player on the other side is hidden from us. We know that his play is always fair, just and patient. But also we know, to our cost, that he never overlooks a mistake, or makes the smallest allowance for ignorance. 棋盘宛如世界： 一个个棋子仿佛世间的种种现象：游戏规则就是我们所称的自然法则。 竞争对手藏于暗处，不为我们所见。 我们知晓，这位对手向来处事公平，正义凛然，极富耐心。 然而，我们也明白，这位对手从不忽视任何错误，或者因为我们的无知而做出一丝让步，所以我们也必须为此付出代价。 (备注：也有学者将赫胥黎的话浓缩成如下： “世界如棋盘，万象乃棋子。游戏有法则，遵守事功倍。”）
英国 电生理学 家赫胥黎(1963诺贝尔生理学/医学奖得主)前天去世 Sir Andrew Fielding Huxley (22 November 1917– 30 May 2012) died two days ago. Huxley was an English physiologist and biophysicist , who won the 1963 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine for his experimental and mathematical work with Alan Hodgkin on the basis of nerve action potentials , the electrical impulses that enable the activity of an organism to be coordinated by a central nervous system . ( read more about him on Wikipedia ). Huxley is a grandson of Thomas Henry Huxley (4 May 1825 – 29 June 1895) -- "Darwin's Bulldog" (“达尔文的斗犬”赫胥黎) . Hodgkin and Huxley's electrophysiological work was done on the giant axon of the Atlantic squid ( Loligo pealei ), which enabled them to record ionic currents as they would not have been able to do in almost any other neuron. See: 肖静宁：从神经科学的发展看实验材料选择的方法论意义( http://www.cssn.cn/news/160940.htm ). Sir Andrew Fielding Huxley (22 November 1917 – 30 May 2012)
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