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Guided only by their feeling for symmetry, simplicity, and generality, and an indefinable sense of the fitness of things, creative mathematicians now, as in the past, are inspired by the art of mathematics rather than by any prospect of ultimate usefulness.

  • -- Eric Temple Bell 埃里克·坦普尔·贝尔

现在的创造性数学家和过去一样，只受他们对对称性、简明性和普遍性的感觉以及对事物适应性的一种无法定义的感觉的指导，他们受到数学艺术的启发，而不是受到任何最终有用的前景的启发。

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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。

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The traditional mathematician recognizes and appreciates mathematical elegance when he sees it. I propose to go one step further, and to consider elegance an essential ingredient of mathematics: if it is clumsy, it is not mathematics.

传统的数学家看到数学的优雅时，会承认并欣赏它。我建议更进一步，认为优雅是数学的一个基本要素:如果它笨拙，它就不是数学。

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The sensation of never feeling good enough or pretty enough will always be there. It's a constant dialogue, and you just learn to be more powerful than that other voice. When you hear it come up, you shut it down.

永远不会感到足够好或足够漂亮的感觉将永远存在。这是一个持续不断的对话，你要学会比其他声音更强大。当你听到它出现时，你就把它关掉。

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I really wanted to be a doctor, until my freshman year of college when I realized that while I was good at chemistry and biology, I really wasn't feeling challenged by it.

我真的很想成为一名医生，直到我大学一年级的时候，我意识到虽然我擅长化学和生物，我真的没有感到挑战。

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I am only conscious of any satisfaction in Scientific Reading or thinking when it rounds off into a poetical generality and vagueness.

我只有在科学阅读或思考的过程中才会感到满足，因为它最终会变成诗意的概括性和模糊性。

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The wisdom of life consists in the elimination of nonessentials.

生活的智慧在于消除不必要的东西。

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Simplicity is the key.

简单是关键。

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