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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To recover a spiritual tradition in which creation, and the study of creation, matters would be to inaugurate new possibilities between spirituality and science that would shape the paradigms for culture, its institution, and its people.

恢复一种精神传统，在这种精神传统中，创造和对创造的研究是至关重要的，这将开创精神和科学之间的新可能性，从而形成文化、制度和人民的范例。

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There's the tradition in jazz of having the Battle of the Bands, and you do not want to get your head cut when you're playing.

在爵士乐中有一个传统，那就是在乐队之间展开一场战斗，你不想在演奏的时候被人砍头。

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Proof is an idol before whom the pure mathematician tortures himself.

证明是一个偶像，纯数学家在它面前折磨自己。

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Mathematics is written for mathematicians.

数学是为数学家写的。

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