小说是揭示真相的谎言。
Fiction is the lie that tells the truth.
问题的数学表述通常比其解决方案更重要,后者可能仅仅是数学或实验技巧的问题。
In a field by the river my love and I did stand,And on my leaning shoulder she laid her snow-white hand.She bid me take life easy, as the grass grows on the weirs;But I was young and foolish, and now am full of tears.
Mathematics is not just about numbers, equations, computations, or algorithms: it is about understanding.
The more you know, the more you realize you don't know.
The truth is often buried beneath layers of lies.
The end of history will be a very sad time. The struggle for recognition, the willingness to risk one's life for a purely abstract goal, the worldwide ideological struggle that called forth daring, courage, imagination, and idealism, will be replaced by economic calculation, the endless solving of technical problems, environmental concerns, and the satisfaction of sophisticated consumer demands.