历史学家必须是诗人,不是为了创造,而是为了重新创造。
The historian must be a poet, not to create, but to recreate.
The study of computation is not just about machines, but about the very nature of thought and logic.
计算的研究不仅仅是关于机器,而是关于思维和逻辑的本质。
Every book is a new adventure in making.
测量的精确性不仅仅是技术问题,更是拓展人类知识边界的关键。
If facts, logic, and scientific procedures are all just arbitrarily "socially constructed" notions, then all that is left is consensus--more specifically peer consensus, the kind of consensus that matters to adolescents or to many among the intelligentsia.