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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.

  • -- Edsger Wybe Dijkstra 艾兹格·迪科斯彻

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。

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Guided only by their feeling for symmetry, simplicity, and generality, and an indefinable sense of the fitness of things, creative mathematicians now, as in the past, are inspired by the art of mathematics rather than by any prospect of ultimate usefulness.

现在的创造性数学家和过去一样，只受他们对对称性、简明性和普遍性的感觉以及对事物适应性的一种无法定义的感觉的指导，他们受到数学艺术的启发，而不是受到任何最终有用的前景的启发。

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It is easier to square the circle than to get round a mathematician. Augustus de Morgan

与数学家周旋相比，求圆的平方要容易得多。 奥古斯都•德•摩根

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We always had to play the game and play for the team. It is a Kent tradition.

我们总是要打比赛，为球队而战。这是肯特郡的传统。

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Tradition becomes our security, and when the mind is secure it is in decay.

传统成为我们的保障，当思想得到保障时，它就会腐朽。

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