Music is the arithmetic of sounds as optics is the geometry of light.

  • -- Claude Debussy 克劳德·德彪西

音乐是声音的算术,正如光学是光的几何。

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The desire to economize time and mental effort in arithmetical computations, and to eliminate human liability to error is probably as old as the science of arithmetic itself.

在算术计算中节省时间和脑力的愿望,以及消除人类易犯错误的倾向,可能和算术科学本身一样古老。

I sort of feel like music saved my life when I was young. This is the one thing that I knew I was good at.

我年轻的时候觉得音乐救了我的命。这是我知道自己擅长的一件事。

It requires wisdom to understand wisdom: the music is nothing if the audience is deaf.

理解智慧需要智慧:如果听众是聋子,音乐什么都不是。

God does arithmetic.

上帝做算术。