No matter how correct a mathematical theorem may appear to be, one ought never to be satisfied that there was not something imperfect about it until it also gives the impression of being beautiful.

  • -- George John Boole 乔治·约翰·布尔

无论一个数学定理看起来多么正确,一个人永远不应该满足于它没有什么不完美,直到它也给人一种美丽的印象。

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In a few decades of reconstruction, even the mathematical natural sciences, the ancient archetypes of theoretical perfection, have changed habit completely!

在几十年的重建中,甚至数学自然科学的原型理论的完善,都彻底改变了习惯!

It is impossible to trap modern physics into predicting anything with perfect determinism because it deals with probabilities from the outset.

现代物理学不可能用完全决定论来预测任何事情,因为它从一开始就涉及概率。