Humans seem to have such a tendency to establish a rule that others follow, at the same time trying to make themselves an exception, not subject to its constraints.
人类似乎有这样的倾向,建立一项规则叫别人遵守,同时又极力使自己成为例外,不受它的约束。
追求真理需要相当大的努力,这就是为什么只有很少人愿意出于对知识的热爱而去追求真理,尽管上帝在人的心灵中植入了对这种知识的自然渴望。
书桌上不能有太多的书,心中则不能少书;这就好像鱼离了水则干枯,心中没有书则无寄托。
The true spirit of delight, the exaltation, the sense of being more than Man, which is the touchstone of the highest excellence, is to be found in mathematics as surely as in poetry.