The simplicities of natural laws arise through the complexities of the language we use for their expression.

  • -- Eugene Wigner 尤金·维格纳

自然规律的简单性来自于我们用来表达它们的语言的复杂性。

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A graphic representation of data abstracted from the banks of every computer in the human system. Unthinkable complexity. Lines of light ranged in the nonspace of the mind, clusters and constellations of data. Like city lights, receding.

从人类系统中每台计算机的数据库中抽象出来的数据的图形表示。不可思议的复杂性。光线在大脑的非空间、星系团和星系团中排列。就像城市的灯光,渐渐退去。

For an author to write as he speaks is just as reprehensible as the opposite fault, to speak as he writes; for this gives a pedantic effect to what he says, and at the same time makes him hardly intelligible.

一个作家边写边写,就像他犯了相反的错误一样,应该受到谴责;因为这给他所说的话带来了一种迂腐的效果,同时也使他的话难以理解。

We coin concepts and we use them to analyse and explain nature and society. But we seem to forget, midway, that these concepts are our own constructs and start equating them with reality.

我们创造概念,并用它们来分析和解释自然和社会。但我们似乎在中途忘记了,这些概念是我们自己的构念,并开始将它们等同于现实。

Classical and romantic: private language of a family quarrel, a dead dispute over the distribution of emphasis between man and nature.

经典与浪漫:家庭争吵的私人语言,一场关于人与自然之间重点分配的死争论。

In my piano concerto I developed this polyphony to much higher complexity.

在我的钢琴协奏曲中,我把这种复调发展到更复杂的程度。