A COLLECTION OF GOOD WORDS
数学
Math
Mathematics is as old as Man.
数学和人类一样古老。
Mathematicians are born, not made.
数学家是天生的，不是后天培养的。
Mathematics is the music of reason.
数学是理性的音乐。
Projective geometry is all geometry.
射影几何就是几何。
There is no ‘royal road’ to geometry.
几何没有捷径可走。
Mathematics is written for mathematicians.
数学是为数学家写的。
Let no one ignorant of mathematics enter here.
不懂数学的人不要进来。
On A Beautiful Mind, there was a wall of math.
在一个美丽的心灵里，有一堵数学的墙。
Yes, I was really good in physics and in math.
是的，我物理和数学都很好。
The essence of mathematics lies in its freedom.
数学的本质在于它的自由。
Numbers constitute the only universal language.
数字是唯一的通用语言。
Mathematicians stand on each other's shoulders.
数学家们站在彼此的肩膀上。
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If mathematics is to be understood widely, we need to emphasise its elegance and its applications. Sometimes it seems that universities want to emphasise how difficult it is!
要使数学得到广泛的理解，我们需要强调它的优雅及其应用。有时候，大学似乎想强调这是多么困难!
Pure mathematicians just love to try unsolved problems - they love a challenge.
纯粹的数学家只是喜欢尝试未解决的问题——他们喜欢挑战。
Mathematical science is in my opinion an indivisible whole, an organism whose vitality is conditioned upon the connection of its parts.
在我看来，数学科学是一个不可分割的整体，是一个有机体，它的活力取决于各部分之间的联系。
One can imagine that the ultimate mathematician is one who can see analogies between analogies.
可以想象，最终的数学家是一个能在类比之间看到类比的人。
How thoroughly it is ingrained in mathematical science that every real advance goes hand in hand with the invention of sharper tools and simpler methods which, at the same time, assist in understanding earlier theories and in casting aside some more complicated developments.
每一个真正的进步都伴随着更锋利的工具和更简单的方法的发明，这在数学科学中是多么根深蒂固啊!与此同时，这些工具和方法有助于理解早期的理论，并把一些更复杂的发展抛诸脑后。