It is folly to expect men to do all that they may reasonable be expected to do.

  • -- Richard Whately 理查德·怀特利

指望人们做一切合理的事是愚蠢的。

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It is not the language of painters but the language of nature which one should listen to... The feeling for the things themselves, for reality, is more important than the feeling for pictures.

人们应该倾听的不是画家的语言,而是自然的语言。对事物本身的感觉,对现实的感觉,比对图片的感觉更重要。

As far as the laws of mathematics refer to reality, they are not certain, and as far as they are certain, they do not refer to reality.

只要数学定律适用于现实,它们就是不确定的;只要它们确定,它们就不适用于现实。