The way in which mathematicians and physicists and historians talk is quite different, and what a physicist means by physical intuition and what a mathematician means by beauty or elegance are things worth thinking about.

  • -- Clifford Geertz 吉尔兹

数学家、物理学家和历史学家说话的方式是完全不同的,物理学家对物理直觉的理解和数学家对美或优雅的理解是值得思考的。

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The planets are never the same twice, they're always different, so they could compare the markings I had drawn with their current photographs and they knew that I was drawing what I was really seeing and it wasn't copied from somewhere.

行星从来没有两次是相同的,它们总是不同的,所以他们可以把我画的标记和他们现在的照片进行比较,他们知道我画的是我真正看到的,而不是从哪里复制来的。

The whole problem can be stated quite simply by asking, "Is there a meaning to music?" My answer would be, "Yes." And "Can you state in so many words what the meaning is?" My answer to that would be, "No."

整个问题可以简单地通过问“音乐有意义吗?”我的回答是:“是的。”“你能用这么多的词来说明它的意思吗?”我的回答是,“不。”

There is no logical way to the discovery of these elemental laws. There is only the way of intuition, which is helped by a feeling for the order lying behind the appearance.

发现这些基本定律没有逻辑的方法。只有一种直觉的方法,那就是感觉表象背后的秩序。

Trust your hunches. They're usually based on facts filed away just below the conscious level.

相信你的直觉。它们通常是建立在低于意识水平的事实基础上的。

I think, for me, humour needs to be used like a strong spice - sparingly.

我认为,对我来说,幽默需要像一种强烈的香料一样谨慎使用。

I love writing different things.

我喜欢写不同的东西。