If civilization continues to advance in the next two thousant years, the overwhelming novelty in human thought will be the dominance of mathematical understanding.

• 数学是理解模式与分析模式关系的最有威力的工具.；只要在今后的两千年里；文明继续进步；人类思想中压倒一切的新事物；将是数学理智的统治。