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

  • -- Wilfred Owen 威尔弗雷德·欧文

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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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.

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。

When you're young, you don't especially think of yourself as being young. You're just alive and everything's interesting and you don't think of things in terms of age because you're not conscious of it.

当你年轻的时候,你不会特别认为自己年轻。你只是活着,一切都很有趣,你不会用年龄来思考事情,因为你没有意识到。

Nothing is poetical if plain daylight is not poetical; and no monster should amaze us if the normal man does not amaze.

如果平淡的日光不是诗意的,那就没有什么是诗意的;如果普通人不感到惊奇,那么任何怪物都不应该让我们感到惊奇。

I'm always making a conscious effort to be viable and accessible.

我总是有意识地努力让自己变得可行和平易近人。