"Obvious" is the most dangerous word in mathematics.

  • -- Eric Temple Bell 埃里克·坦普尔·贝尔

“显而易见”是数学中最危险的词。

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I apologize for being obvious, but every time I watch the curtain come down on even a halfway decent production of a Shakespeare play I feel a little sorrowful that I'll never know the man, or any man of such warm intelligence.

我为自己的直率道歉,但每当我看到一部莎士比亚戏剧的半正式演出落幕时,我都感到有些悲伤,因为我永远不会认识这个人,或者任何一个如此热情睿智的人。

That the state of knowledge in any country will exert a directive influence on the general system of instruction adopted in it, is a principle too obvious to require investigation.

任何国家的知识状况将对其所采用的一般教学制度产生直接影响,这是一项显而易见的原则,不需要进行调查。

I finally reached the conclusion that mathematics was the study I was best fitted to follow, though I did not clearly see in what way I should turn the subject to account.

我终于得出结论,数学是我最适合从事的研究,尽管我不清楚该用什么方法来解释这个问题。

Nothing is more dangerous than a dogmatic worldview - nothing more constraining, more blinding to innovation, more destructive of openness to novelty.

没有什么比教条主义的世界观更危险的了——没有什么比教条主义更束缚人,对创新更盲目,对新鲜事物更具有破坏性。

The refined punishments of the spiritual mode are usually much more indecent and dangerous than a good smack.

精神模式的优雅惩罚通常比一记漂亮的重击更不雅、更危险。

The study of mathematics, like the Nile, begins in minuteness but ends in magnificence.

数学的研究就像尼罗河一样,开始于细微处,结束于壮丽。

A word is the carving and colouring of a thought, and gives it permanence.

一个字是一个思想的雕刻和着色,并赋予它永久性。

Sticks and stones may break my bones but your words, they surely kill.

棍棒和石头可以打断我的骨头,但你的话必致人死亡。