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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As an instrument for practical action, law is responsive to the wisdom of its time, which may be wrong, but it carries forward, sometimes in opposition to this wisdom or passion, a memory of received values.

作为一种实际行动的工具,法律对其所处时代的智慧作出反应,虽然这种智慧可能是错误的,但它有时与这种智慧或激情背道而驰,将所接受的价值观发扬光大。

Now being in such grace and favor by reason I learned him some points of geometry and understanding of the art of mathematics with other things, I pleased him so that what I said he would not contrary.

现在,由于受到这样的恩宠,我学会了一些几何学的知识,用其他的东西来理解数学的艺术,我使他高兴,所以我说的话他不会反对。

Good men are often more practical than pretty.

好人往往比漂亮的人更实际。

There are no creeds in mathematics.

数学中没有信条。