The longer mathematics lives the more abstract - and therefore, possibly also the more practical - it becomes.

  • -- Eric Temple Bell 埃里克·坦普尔·贝尔

数学存在的时间越长,它就变得越抽象,因此也可能变得越实用。

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I like people who are working on practical things and who are working in teams. It's not so important to get the glory. It's much more important to get something that works. It's a better way to live.

我喜欢从事实际工作和团队合作的人。获得荣誉并不那么重要。更重要的是找到有效的方法。这是一种更好的生活方式。

My objection to Liberalism is this that it is the introduction into the practical business of life of the highest kind namely, politics of philosophical ideas instead of political principles.

我反对自由主义的理由是,自由主义是把最高层次的哲学思想而不是政治原则引入到生活的实际事务中去。

I like mathematics because it is not human and has nothing particular to do with this planet or with the whole accidental universe - because, like Spinoza's God, it won't love us in return.

我喜欢数学,因为它不是人类,它与这个星球或整个偶然的宇宙没有什么特别的关系——因为,就像斯宾诺莎笔下的上帝一样,它也不会反过来爱我们。

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

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。