The way in which mathematicians and physicists and historians talk is quite different, and what a physicist means by physical intuition and what a mathematician means by beauty or elegance are things worth thinking about.

  • -- Clifford Geertz 吉尔兹

数学家、物理学家和历史学家说话的方式是完全不同的,物理学家对物理直觉的理解和数学家对美或优雅的理解是值得思考的。

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You can have many different selection systems, but the bottom line has to be a system that, once the judge takes office that judge will feel that he or she is to decide the case without reference to the popular thing or the popular will of the moment.

你可以有很多不同的选择系统,但底线必须是这样一个系统,一旦法官上任,他或她就会觉得他或她决定案件,而不考虑当时流行的事情或流行的意愿。

Men have been found to deny woman intellect; they have credited her with instinct, with intuition, with a capacity to correlate cause and effect much as a dog connects its collar with a walk.

人们发现男性否认女性的智慧;他们相信她有本能,有直觉,有能力把因果联系起来,就像狗把项圈和散步联系起来一样。

Unless you're involved with thinking about what you're doing, you end up doing the same thing over and over, and that becomes tedious and, in the end, defeating.

除非你一直在思考你在做什么,否则你最终会一遍又一遍地做同样的事情,这会变得单调乏味,最终会失败。

Thinking is easy, acting is difficult, and to put one's thoughts into action is the most difficult thing in the world.

思考是容易的,行动是困难的,把一个人的思想付诸行动是世界上最困难的事情。

Intuition becomes increasingly valuable in the new information society precisely because there is so much data.

直觉在新的信息社会变得越来越有价值,正是因为有这么多的数据。

The nature of anguish is translated into different forms.

痛苦的本质被翻译成不同的形式。