《艰难时世》( Hard Times )据说狄更斯结构最精的小说,开篇的一段话很好: Now, what I want is, Facts. Teach these boys and girls nothing but Facts. Facts alone are wanted in life. Plant nothing else. And root o ...
偶见 James A. Marcum 的 Thomas Kuhn’s Revolution: An Historical Philosophy of Science ,看到几行心有戚戚的文字—— 数学家 Karl Pearson 为科学家树立 了一个“标准像”:穿着僵硬的闪着光亮的白大褂……没有一点儿偏见, 能冷静分析一切事实,然后构建事实 ...
George Orwell 《动物农场》( Animal Farm )第 10 章开头说: Years passed. The seasons came and went, the short animal lives fled by. A time came when there was no one who remembered the old days befo ...
前几天说起 Constance Reid 为姐姐编的一本小书( Julia, A Life in Mathematician ),其中有苏联的尤里( Yuri Matijasevich )写的一篇回忆(他与 Julia Robinson 有过合作),感觉有点儿借鉴意义。 1965 年, Juri 在列宁格勒 ...