The usual approach of science of constructing a mathematical model cannot answer the questions of why there should be a universe for the model to describe. Why does the universe go to all the bother of existing?

  • -- Stephen Hawking 斯蒂芬霍金

构建数学模型的通常科学方法不能回答为什么模型要描述一个宇宙的问题。为什么宇宙要如此麻烦地存在?

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The central task of science is to arrive, stage by stage, at a clearer comprehension of nature, but this does not at all mean, as it is sometimes claimed to mean, a search for mastery over nature.

科学的中心任务是逐步达到对自然的更清晰的理解,但这并不意味着,它有时被认为意味着,寻求对自然的掌握。

Math is sometimes called the science of patterns.

数学有时被称为模式科学。