I like mathematics because it is not human and has nothing particular to do with this planet or with the whole accidental universe - because, like Spinoza's God, it won't love us in return.

  • -- Bertrand Russell 罗素

我喜欢数学,因为它不是人类,它与这个星球或整个偶然的宇宙没有什么特别的关系——因为,就像斯宾诺莎笔下的上帝一样,它也不会反过来爱我们。

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I ended up in college by accident. Everything in my life, I ended up in by accident. I was down south in this high school doing whatever. It could just not contain me. I quit school and took off and traveled around. Nobody knew where I was I just couldn't handle it anymore. It was a big scandal, I was gone. I left.

我不小心上了大学。我生命中的每一件事,都是在偶然中结束的。我在南方的这所高中做什么都行。它不能容纳我。我离开学校,开始四处旅行。没人知道我在哪里,我就是受不了了。这是个大丑闻,我走了。我离开了。

It is impossible for us to understand the Church if we regard her as subject to the limitations of human culture. For she is essentially a supernatural organism which transcends human cultures and transforms them to her own ends.

如果我们认为她受人类文化的限制,我们就不可能理解教会。因为她本质上是一个超自然的有机体,它超越了人类文化,并将其转化为自己的目的。

I think it's a very firm part of human nature that if you surround yourself with like-minded people, you'll end up thinking more extreme versions of what you thought before.

我认为这是人性中非常坚定的一部分,如果你和志同道合的人在一起,你最终会对你以前的想法有更极端的看法。

I would not wish to imply that most industrial accidents are due to intemperance. But, certainly, temperance has never failed to reduce their number.

我不想暗示大多数工业事故是由于酗酒造成的。但是,毫无疑问,节制从来没有减少过它们的数量。

Thus, in a sense, mathematics has been most advanced by those who distinguished themselves by intuition rather than by rigorous proofs.

因此,从某种意义上说,数学是由那些靠直觉而不是靠严格的证明来突出自己的人发展起来的。

The longer mathematics lives the more abstract - and therefore, possibly also the more practical - it becomes.

数学存在的时间越长,它就变得越抽象,因此也可能变得越实用。

But all that being said about modulation, if you're serving people delicious food, they won't complain.

但说到调制,如果你为人们提供美味的食物,他们不会抱怨。

People intoxicate themselves with work so they won't see how they really are.

人们醉心于工作,所以他们看不到自己的真实状态。