For scholars and laymen alike it is not philosophy but active experience in mathematics itself that can alone answer the question: What is mathematics?

-- Richard Courant 库兰特

对于学者和门外汉来说，只有数学本身的积极经验，而不是哲学，才能回答这个问题:什么是数学?

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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.

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 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。

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We chart delusions through collective agreement.

我们通过集体协议来描绘错觉。

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Serve man serve god.

事奉人，事奉神。

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