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数学
Mathematics
Mathematics is as old as Man.
数学和人类一样古老。
There are no creeds in mathematics.
数学中没有信条。
The essence of mathematics lies in its freedom.
数学的本质在于它的自由。
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。
"Obvious" is the most dangerous word in mathematics.
“显而易见”是数学中最危险的词。
There should be no such thing as boring mathematics.
不应该有无聊的数学。
Mathematics allows for no hypocrisy and no vagueness.
数学不允许虚伪和模糊。
Music at times is more like perfume than mathematics.
音乐有时更像香水而不是数学。
I am interested in mathematics only as a creative art.
我对数学的兴趣只是作为一种创造性的艺术。
What is algebra exactly; is it those three-cornered things?
什么是代数;是那些三角形的东西吗?
Pure mathematics is, in its way, the poetry of logical ideas.
纯数学，从它的角度来说，是逻辑思想的诗歌。
I can become very emotional about math, although I'm not that good at it.
我对数学很感性，虽然我不擅长数学。
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It has become almost a cliche to remark that nobody boasts of ignorance of literature, but it is socially acceptable to boast ignorance of science and proudly claim incompetence in mathematics.
说没有人会吹嘘自己对文学的无知几乎已经成了陈词滥调，但吹嘘自己对科学的无知、自豪地宣称自己在数学方面的无能是可以被社会接受的。
As far as the laws of mathematics refer to reality, they are not certain, and as far as they are certain, they do not refer to reality.
只要数学定律适用于现实，它们就是不确定的;只要它们确定，它们就不适用于现实。
The longer mathematics lives the more abstract - and therefore, possibly also the more practical - it becomes.
数学存在的时间越长，它就变得越抽象，因此也可能变得越实用。
Mathematics takes us into the region of absolute necessity, to which not only the actual word, but every possible word, must conform.
数学把我们带入绝对必然性的领域，在这个领域里，不仅实际的词，而且每一个可能的词都必须符合。
It is not of the essence of mathematics to be conversant with the ideas of number and quantity.
熟悉数和量的概念并不是数学的本质。
For scholars and laymen alike it is not philosophy but active experience in mathematics itself that can alone answer the question: What is mathematics?
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?