As far as I know, only a small minority of mathematicians, even of those with Platonist views, accept the idea that there may be mathematical facts which are true but unknowable.

  • -- Abraham Robinson 亚伯拉罕·鲁滨逊

据我所知,只有一小部分数学家,甚至包括那些柏拉图主义者,接受这样的观点,即可能存在真实但不可知的数学事实。

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I identify with Superman. I am adopted, I am an only child, and I love the idea that he comes from another world, that he's the ultimate immigrant. He has all these extraordinary powers, and he has a righteousness about him.

我认同超人。我是被收养的,我是独生子女,我喜欢他来自另一个世界的想法,他是最终的移民。他有这一切的超能力,并且有他的义。

Fiction writing, and the reading of it, and book buying, have always been the activities of a tiny minority of people, even in the most-literate societies.

小说写作、阅读和购书,一直都是一小部分人的活动,即使是在受教育程度最高的社会中也是如此。

The good thing about science is that it's true whether or not you believe in it.

科学的好处是不管你相信与否,它都是真的。

A cat, I am told, has nine lives. If that is true, I know how a cat feels.

我听说猫有九条命。如果这是真的,我知道猫的感受。

The minority is sometimes right; the majority always wrong.

少数人有时是对的;大多数人总是错的。

Ideas, like large rivers, never have just one source.

思想就像一条大河,从不只有一个源头。