1: The laws of nature are but the mathematical thoughts of God自然规律不过是上帝的数学思维罢了。
2: There was no royal road to geometry在几何里,没有专为国王铺设的大道 (royal road 有平坦的路的意思)。原文如下:Ptolemy I, king of Egypt, asked Euclid \"if there was in geometry any shorter way than that of the Elements\