The desire to economize time and mental effort in arithmetical computations, and to eliminate human liability to error is probably as old as the science of arithmetic itself.

  • -- Howard Aiken 霍华德·艾肯

在算术计算中节省时间和脑力的愿望,以及消除人类易犯错误的倾向,可能和算术科学本身一样古老。

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If scientific reasoning were limited to the logical processes of arithmetic, we should not get very far in our understanding of the physical world. One might as well attempt to grasp the game of poker entirely by the use of the mathematics of probability.

如果科学推理局限于算术的逻辑过程,我们对物理世界的理解就不会走得太远。人们不妨尝试完全利用概率数学来把握扑克游戏。

Nobody wants to look like a fool. Nine times out of ten, that reason alone keeps people from allowing themselves to believe.

没人想看起来像个傻瓜。十有八九,仅仅这个原因就能阻止人们相信自己。

Whenever the work is itself light, it becomes necessary, in order to economize time, to increase the velocity.

只要工作本身是轻的,为了节省时间,就有必要增加速度。

Music is the arithmetic of sounds as optics is the geometry of light.

音乐是声音的算术,正如光学是光的几何。

If you get up one more time than you fall you will make it through.

如果你起床的次数比跌倒的次数多一次,你就会成功。

Focusing isn't just an optical activity, it is also a mental one.

聚焦不仅是一种视觉活动,也是一种心理活动。