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.

  • -- Bertrand Russell 罗素

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。

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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。

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。