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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I remember once, when I started writing for the alto saxophone, a saxophonist told me to think of it as being like a cross between an oboe and a viola, but louder.

我记得有一次,当我开始为中音萨克斯管写作时,一个萨克斯手告诉我要把它想象成双簧管和中提琴的混合体,但声音要大一些。

I feel there are two people inside me -- me and my intuition. If I go against her, she'll screw me every time, and if I follow her, we get along quite nicely.

我觉得我的内心有两个人——我和我的直觉。如果我跟她作对,她每次都会耍我,如果我跟着她,我们相处得很好。

That which seems the height of absurdity in one generation often becomes the height of wisdom in another.

在一代人看来荒谬到极点的东西,在另一代人看来往往变成智慧到极点。

Intuition comes very close to clairvoyance; it appears to be the extrasensory perception of reality.

直觉非常接近千里眼;它似乎是对现实的超感官感知。

I mean, y'know, platinum is different in every country, which can be confusing.

我的意思是,你知道,白金在每个国家都是不同的,这可能会令人困惑。

I like being forced to think about things in a different way.

我喜欢被迫以不同的方式思考问题。