Mathematics takes us into the region of absolute necessity, to which not only the actual word, but every possible word, must conform.

  • -- Bertrand Russell 罗素

数学把我们带入绝对必然性的领域,在这个领域里,不仅实际的词,而且每一个可能的词都必须符合。

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I don't subscribe to any particular orthodoxy, so I don't define it and I don't put it into a definition that other people have to conform to. An expression I always use is, there is a God and it's not me.

我不赞同任何特定的正统观念,所以我不给它下定义,也不给它下其他人必须遵守的定义。我常说的一句话是,有一个上帝,但不是我。

It is because the body is a machine that education is possible. Education is the formation of habits, a superinducing of an artificial organization upon the natural organization of the body.

因为身体是一台机器,所以教育是可能的。教育是习惯的形成,是一种人工组织对身体自然组织的超诱导。

Everywhere I look, there are ads marking Mother's Day. Mostly they conform to stereotype: flowers, jewelry, perfume. Not a lot of books. Not many computers. Few tools. Little that's useful.

我看到的每一个地方都有母亲节的广告。大多数情况下,它们都符合刻板印象:鲜花、珠宝、香水。没有很多书。不是很多电脑。一些工具。小这是有用的。

If you limit your choices only to what seems possible or reasonable, you disconnect yourself from what you truly want, and all that is left is compromise.

如果你只把你的选择限制在看起来可能的或合理的范围内,你就脱离了你真正想要的,剩下的就是妥协。

For scholars and laymen alike it is not philosophy but active experience in mathematics itself that can alone answer the question: What is mathematics?

对于学者和门外汉来说,只有数学本身的积极经验,而不是哲学,才能回答这个问题:什么是数学?

Poetry is a form of mathematics, a highly rigorous relationship with words.

诗歌是数学的一种形式,与文字有着高度严格的联系。