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

  • -- Arthur Eddington 爱丁顿

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。

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Pure mathematics is on the whole distinctly more useful than applied. For what is useful above all is technique, and mathematical technique is taught mainly through pure mathematics.

从整体上看,纯数学明显比应用数学更有用。因为最重要的是技术,而数学技术主要是通过纯数学来教授的。

Deals are my art form. Other people paint beautifully on canvas or write wonderful poetry. I like making deals, preferably big deals. That's how I get my kicks.

交易是我的艺术形式。其他人在画布上画得很漂亮,或者写得很好。我喜欢做交易,最好是大交易。我就是这样获得快感的。

To emphasize only the beautiful seems to me to be like a mathematical system that only concerns itself with positive numbers.

在我看来,只强调美就像一个数学系统,只关注它自己的正数。

The physics are simple in theory, but in practice they are filled with the possibility for limitless error.

物理学在理论上很简单,但在实践中却充满了无限误差的可能性。

Even at its most perceptive, sociology deals in abstractions.

即使在最具洞察力的时候,社会学也处理抽象问题。

Physics is experience, arranged in economical order.

物理学是经验,按经济顺序排列。

I stopped predicting the future a long time ago.

我很久以前就不再预测未来了。