It is the perennial youthfulness of mathematics itself which marks it off with a disconcerting immortality from the other sciences.

  • -- Eric Temple Bell 埃里克·坦普尔·贝尔

正是数学本身的永葆青春,使它与其他科学令人不安的不朽性相区别。

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For some reason I can't explain, artist and musicians tend to look younger than our age. Being in music, you need this youthful sense of discovery and wonder for what you're doing and keep your imagination open. That's a youthful way of looking at life and I think that reflects in how you age.

出于某种我无法解释的原因,艺术家和音乐家往往看起来比我们的年龄年轻。在音乐界,你需要这种年轻的发现感和对你所做事情的好奇感,并保持你的想象力。这是年轻人看待生活的一种方式,我认为这反映了你的年龄。

I'm busy doing my job, and being a loudmouth doesn't appeal to me as much as when I was younger and had the youthful delusion that I was smarter than everybody else.

我正忙着做我的工作,当一个爱说大话的人已经不像我年轻时那么吸引我了,那时我有一种年轻时的错觉,认为自己比别人都聪明。

If I were again beginning my studies, I would follow the advice of Plato and start with mathematics.

如果我重新开始学习,我会听从柏拉图的建议,从数学开始。

That's really what science is just trying to figure stuff out, and I like figuring stuff out.

这就是科学想要解决的问题,我喜欢解决问题。

The energy and daring is to resist the noes, until the final yes has been achieved.

我们的精力和勇气是抵制“不”,直到最终达成“是”。

The doctrine of the immortality of the soul has more threat than comfort.

灵魂不朽的学说与其说是安慰不如说是威胁。

Since we have had a history, men have pursued an ideal of immortality.

自从我们有了历史以来,人类一直在追求不朽的理想。

Mathematics allows for no hypocrisy and no vagueness.

数学不允许虚伪和模糊。