A COLLECTION OF GOOD WORDS
数学
Mathematics
Poetry is a form of mathematics, a highly rigorous relationship with words.
诗歌是数学的一种形式，与文字有着高度严格的联系。
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。
In mathematics we have long since drawn the rein, and given over a hopeless race.
在数学上，我们早就控制不住自己，放弃了一场无望的竞赛。
Life is good for only two things, discovering mathematics and teaching mathematics.
人生只有两件事是美好的:发现数学和教授数学。
The study of mathematics, like the Nile, begins in minuteness but ends in magnificence.
数学的研究就像尼罗河一样，开始于细微处，结束于壮丽。
In mathematics the art of proposing a question must be held of higher value than solving it.
在数学中，提出问题的艺术必须比解决问题更有价值。
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。
If I were again beginning my studies, I would follow the advice of Plato and start with mathematics.
如果我重新开始学习，我会听从柏拉图的建议，从数学开始。
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。
The mistakes and unresolved difficulties of the past in mathematics have always been the opportunities of its future.
过去数学上的错误和未解决的困难一直是数学未来的机遇。
It is the perennial youthfulness of mathematics itself which marks it off with a disconcerting immortality from the other sciences.
正是数学本身的永葆青春，使它与其他科学令人不安的不朽性相区别。
Mathematics may be defined as the subject in which we never know what we are talking about, nor whether what we are saying is true.
数学可以被定义为这样一门学科:我们永远不知道自己在说什么，也不知道自己所说的是否属实。
KEEP EXPLORING
沿着这个主题，再读几句。
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。
Everyone knows what a curve is, until he has studied enough mathematics to become confused through the countless number of possible exceptions.
每个人都知道曲线是什么，直到他学习了足够多的数学知识，对无数可能的例外感到困惑。
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?
Mathematics as an expression of the human mind reflects the active will, the contemplative reason, and the desire for aesthetic perfection. Its basic elements are logic and intuition, analysis and construction, generality and individuality.
数学作为人类思维的一种表达方式，反映了人类积极的意志、沉思的理性和对审美完美的渴望。其基本要素是逻辑与直觉、分析与建构、共性与个性。