I could never accept findings based almost exclusively on mathematics. It ain't ignorance that causes all the trouble in this world. It's the things people know that ain't so.

  • -- Edwin Armstrong 埃德温·阿姆斯特朗

我无法接受几乎完全基于数学的发现。不是无知造成了这个世界上所有的麻烦。人们知道的事情并不是这样。

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The great trouble with baseball today is that most of the players are in the game for the money and that's it, not for the love of it, the excitement of it, the thrill of it.

今天棒球最大的问题是,大多数球员在比赛中是为了钱,而不是为了热爱它,为它而兴奋,为它而激动。

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。

Revolutions demand enormous sacrifices and, at the same time, create a new need to change the world again.

革命需要巨大的牺牲,与此同时,也创造了再次改变世界的新需要。

Some of the people who look the most normal are probably the maddest people trying to look normal.

有些看起来最正常的人可能是试图看起来正常的最疯狂的人。

There are some people who have trouble recognizing a mess.

有些人很难辨认出一团乱。

I am interested in mathematics only as a creative art.

我对数学的兴趣只是作为一种创造性的艺术。