From all the successes of mathematical science, we've come to believe that somehow, if we only could find them, there'd be formulas to kind of predict everything.

从数学科学的所有成功中，我们开始相信，只要我们能找到它们，就会有公式来预测一切。

A few centuries ago, the development of mathematical notation, and what amounts to the language of mathematics, gave a systematic way to express math and made possible algebra and calculus, and eventually all of modern mathematical science.

几个世纪前，数学符号以及相当于数学语言的发展，提供了一种系统的方式来表达数学，并使代数和微积分成为可能，并最终使所有现代数学科学成为可能。

Laplace would have found it child's-play to fix a ratio of progression in mathematical science between Descartes, Leibnitz, Newton, and himself. Watt could have given in pounds the increase of power between Newcomen's engines and his own.

拉普拉斯会发现确定笛卡尔、莱布尼茨、牛顿和他自己在数学科学中的进步比例是儿戏。瓦特本可以以磅为单位给出 Newcomen 的发动机和他自己的发动机之间的功率增加。