I'm not a perfectionist, but I like to feel that things are done well.
我不是一个完美主义者,但我喜欢感觉事情做得很好。
Not for the sake of our health, though it's often presented that way, but because it's an escape from the human anthill. It's an escape from our own competition, and our own dramas. And that's why ween joy looking at glaciers and oceans, and contemplating the Earth from outside its perimeters, etc. We like to feel in contact with something that is non-human, and that is so deeply important to us.
Mathematics is the science of order and patterns, and it is this order that allows us to understand the world around us.
"In the end, it's not the facts that matter, but the truths we uncover through them."