Serious-minded people have few ideas. People with ideas are never serious.

  • -- Paul Valery 保尔·瓦雷里

认真的人很少有想法。有想法的人从来不认真。

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As far as I know, only a small minority of mathematicians, even of those with Platonist views, accept the idea that there may be mathematical facts which are true but unknowable.

据我所知,只有一小部分数学家,甚至包括那些柏拉图主义者,接受这样的观点,即可能存在真实但不可知的数学事实。

So let's be honest with ourselves and not take ourselves too serious, and never condemn the other fellow for doing what we are doing every day, only in a different way.

所以,让我们对自己诚实一点,不要把自己看得太严肃,永远不要因为别人每天做的事情而责备他,只是用不同的方式罢了。

There are certain things that are too painful for people to even write about sometimes, and there are certain things that are too hard to read about again.

有些事情太痛苦了,人们有时甚至写不出来,有些事情又太难读了。

I don't mean this, but I'm going to say it anyway. I don't really think of pop art and serious art as being that far apart.

我不是这个意思,但我还是要说。我并不认为波普艺术和严肃艺术有那么大的区别。

An idea is always a generalization, and generalization is a property of thinking. To generalize means to think.

一个想法总是一个概括,概括是思维的一种属性。概括就是思考。

I opened the door for a lot of people, and they just ran through and left me holding the knob.

我为很多人开了门,他们跑了进来,留下我一个人握着门把手。