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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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To me, the extraordinary aspect of martial arts lies in its simplicity. The easy way is also the right way, and martial arts is nothing at all special; the closer to the true way of martial arts, the less wastage of expression there is.

对我来说，武术的非凡之处在于它的简单。简单的方法也是正确的方法，武术没什么特别的;越接近武术的真道，表达的浪费就越少。

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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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These examples of the lack of simplicity in English and French, all appearances to the contrary, could be multiplied almost without limit and apply to all national languages.

英语和法语中缺乏简单性的这些例子，表面上都相反，几乎可以无限地增加，并适用于所有的民族语言。

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I like you. I don't ask you to reciprocate the feeling. All i ask you is to respect that i feel. Because felling for you was never something i planned.

我喜欢你。我不要求你回报我的感受。我只要求你尊重我的感受。因为对你的感觉从来都不是我计划好的。

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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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A mathematician is a device for turning coffee into theorems.

数学家是把咖啡变成定理的工具。

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Christmas isn't a season. It's a feeling.

圣诞节不是一个季节。这是一种感觉。

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