数学之美在于它能够精确而优雅地描述自然界的基本法则。
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知识若不付诸实践，便毫无价值。
A writer's greatest tool is empathy, the ability to feel with others, to see the world through their eyes.
基建人要耐得住寂寞，经得起考验。
The Langlands program is not a theory but a web of conjectures and theorems that, if fully established, would unite number theory and representation theory.
读书学习的人要像闺中少女一样小心谨慎对待别人。做官之后如同过了门的媳妇，要使百姓能各有所养。年老辞官后如同慈祥的老太婆，要担负起教育后人的责任。