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Proof is an idol before whom the pure mathematician tortures himself.

  • -- Arthur Eddington 爱丁顿

证明是一个偶像，纯数学家在它面前折磨自己。

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If scientific reasoning were limited to the logical processes of arithmetic, we should not get very far in our understanding of the physical world. One might as well attempt to grasp the game of poker entirely by the use of the mathematics of probability.

如果科学推理局限于算术的逻辑过程，我们对物理世界的理解就不会走得太远。人们不妨尝试完全利用概率数学来把握扑克游戏。

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For one human being to love another; that is perhaps the most difficult of all our tasks, the ultimate, the last test and proof, the work for which all other work is but preparation.

一个人爱另一个人;这也许是我们所有任务中最困难的，是最后的、最后的考验和证明，所有其他工作都只是准备工作。

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I do not believe that God tortures any person simply for its own sake. I believe that God enables all things to work for the greater good.

我不相信上帝仅仅为了自己而折磨任何人。我相信上帝使万物都为更大的善而工作。

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The idol of today pushes the hero of yesterday out of our recollection; and will, in turn, be supplanted by his successor of tomorrow.

今天的偶像把昨天的英雄从我们的记忆中推开;反过来，他也将被明天的继任者所取代。

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Science has proof without any certainty. Creationists have certainty without any proof.

科学有不确定的证据。神创论者没有任何证据就有确定性。

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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。

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A maker of idols is never an idolater.

造偶像的，决不是拜偶像的。

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