It is impossible to trap modern physics into predicting anything with perfect determinism because it deals with probabilities from the outset.

  • -- Arthur Eddington 爱丁顿

现代物理学不可能用完全决定论来预测任何事情,因为它从一开始就涉及概率。

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No matter how correct a mathematical theorem may appear to be, one ought never to be satisfied that there was not something imperfect about it until it also gives the impression of being beautiful.

无论一个数学定理看起来多么正确,一个人永远不应该满足于它没有什么不完美,直到它也给人一种美丽的印象。

The methods of theoretical physics should be applicable to all those branches of thought in which the essential features are expressible with numbers.

理论物理学的方法应该适用于所有那些基本特征可以用数字表示的思想分支。

Its a mathematical fact that two negatives make a positive so even under adverse circumstances think positively.

这是一个数学事实,负负得正,所以即使在不利的情况下也要积极思考。

Time deals gently only with those who take it gently.

时间只温柔地对待那些温柔地对待它的人。

I stopped predicting the future a long time ago.

我很久以前就不再预测未来了。

Medical physics is an applied area of physics.

医学物理学是物理学的一个应用领域。

He that deals in dirt has ay foul fingers.

弄脏东西的人手指很脏。