I like to move among painters, mathematicians, psychologists, people who can tell me something.

  • -- George Woodcock 乔治·伍德科克

我喜欢在画家、数学家、心理学家中间走动,他们能告诉我一些事情。

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The traditional mathematician recognizes and appreciates mathematical elegance when he sees it. I propose to go one step further, and to consider elegance an essential ingredient of mathematics: if it is clumsy, it is not mathematics.

传统的数学家看到数学的优雅时,会承认并欣赏它。我建议更进一步,认为优雅是数学的一个基本要素:如果它笨拙,它就不是数学。

A mathematician is a person who can find analogies between theorems; a better mathematician is one who can see analogies between proofs and the best mathematician can notice analogies between theories.

数学家是能在定理之间找到类比的人;一个更好的数学家能看到证明之间的类比,而最好的数学家能注意到理论之间的类比。

It was very hard for me to practice and enjoy my tennis, and I didn't know the why, so I worked with psychologists to try and see what was happening. They pushed me really hard.

对我来说,练习和享受我的网球是非常困难的,我也不知道为什么,所以我和心理学家们一起尝试看看发生了什么。他们把我逼得很紧。

Everyone in my family is an artist. Both my parents are painters and my mom's an opera singer. I was never shown any other way to process life.

我家的每个人都是艺术家。我父母都是画家,我妈妈是歌剧演员。我从未被告知有其他方式来处理生活。

To say to the painter that Nature is to be taken as she is, is to say to the player that he may sit on the piano.

对画家说,自然就是她的本来面目,就等于对演奏者说,他可以坐在钢琴上。