The outcome of any serious research can only be to make two questions grow where only one grew before.

  • -- Thorstein Veblen 凡勃伦

任何严肃研究的结果只能使两个问题在以前只有一个问题的地方得到发展。

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It makes sense to invest in new work. It's almost like having a research department in a scientific laboratory. You have to try things out. You'll make some bad mistakes. Some things will fail but at least you'll energise the organisation.

投资于新工作是有意义的。这就像在科学实验室里有一个研究部门。你必须尝试一些事情。你会犯一些严重的错误。有些事情会失败,但至少你会让公司充满活力。

Of course the other and more serious way in which it all happens is that one finds in poems and language some quality one appropriates for oneself and wishes to reproduce.

当然,另一种更严肃的方式是,人们在诗歌和语言中发现了一些适合自己的特质,并希望复制。

Without troublesome work, no one can have any concrete, full idea of what pure mathematical research is like or of the profusion of insights that can be obtained from it.

没有烦琐的工作,没有人能对纯数学研究是什么样子的,或能从纯数学研究中获得丰富的见解有任何具体的、全面的认识。

Oh, I was super serious about practicing and rudiments, and still am. I still have all my books.

哦,我是非常认真的练习和入门,现在仍然是。我所有的书都还在。