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The elements, if arranged according to their atomic weights, exhibit an apparent periodicity of properties.
元素，如果按照它们的原子量排列，表现出明显的周期性。
— Dmitri Mendeleev 门捷列夫
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更多好句 ↗The pursuit of pretty formulas and neat theorems can no doubt quickly degenerate into a silly vice, but so can the quest for austere generalities which are so very general indeed that they are incapable of application to any particular.
追求漂亮的公式和简洁的定理无疑会很快堕落为愚蠢的恶习，但追求严格的普遍性也会很快堕落为愚蠢的恶习，因为严格的普遍性是如此普遍，以至于它们无法适用于任何特定的情况。
Eric Temple Bell
埃里克·坦普尔·贝尔
Pure mathematicians just love to try unsolved problems - they love a challenge.
纯粹的数学家只是喜欢尝试未解决的问题——他们喜欢挑战。
Andrew Wiles
安德鲁·怀尔斯
Music is the arithmetic of sounds as optics is the geometry of light.
音乐是声音的算术，正如光学是光的几何。
Claude Debussy
克劳德·德彪西
One can imagine that the ultimate mathematician is one who can see analogies between analogies.
可以想象，最终的数学家是一个能在类比之间看到类比的人。
Stefan Banach
斯特凡·巴纳赫
If mathematics is to be understood widely, we need to emphasise its elegance and its applications. Sometimes it seems that universities want to emphasise how difficult it is!
要使数学得到广泛的理解，我们需要强调它的优雅及其应用。有时候，大学似乎想强调这是多么困难!
Johnny Ball
约翰尼·鲍尔
Mathematics may be defined as the subject in which we never know what we are talking about, nor whether what we are saying is true.
数学可以被定义为这样一门学科:我们永远不知道自己在说什么，也不知道自己所说的是否属实。
Bertrand Russell
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