For scholars and laymen alike it is not philosophy but active experience in mathematics itself that can alone answer the question: What is mathematics?

-- Richard Courant 库兰特

对于学者和门外汉来说，只有数学本身的积极经验，而不是哲学，才能回答这个问题:什么是数学?

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All sciences are vain and full of errors that are not born of experience, the mother of all knowledge.

所有的科学都是徒劳的，充满了错误，这些错误并非来自经验，而是所有知识之母。

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Mathematics is the most beautiful and most powerful creation of the human spirit.

数学是人类精神最美丽、最强大的创造。

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The mathematics is not there till we put it there.

数学是不存在的，除非我们把它放在那里。

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The shadow-maker shapes forever.

阴影制造者永远在塑造。

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