On Earth, the natural sciences had long since parted ways with philosophy.
The essence of philosophy lay in grasping the "world" as a whole. But how vast a world one could see ultimately depended on the level of science and how far theory had advanced. Russell had once said that once knowledge concerning any science could be determined, it would no longer be called philosophy, but would become an independent science.
Thus, any philosophical system painstakingly constructed by philosophers to encompass the entire known world would inevitably be shattered by advances in science and breakthroughs in theory. Even the greatest philosophers were no exception.
Yet mathematics, hailed as the "Queen of Sciences," was an exception instead.
Mathematics had always remained close to philosophy. Though philosophers had never used mathematics to analyze the world, and mathematicians had never entrusted what they learned to the realm of philosophy, both mathematics and philosophy operated alone within the "other world" of the mind. In this respect, mathematics and philosophy truly resembled each other.
Although Gauss looked down on Hegel and even believed Leibniz's diversion into mathematics had been a waste of talent, he was in fact someone who greatly loved mathematics.
Russell, the mathematician who proposed the "Barber Paradox" and sparked the third crisis in mathematics, was originally a philosopher.
And Gödel, one of the most brilliant mathematical masters in history, was even fond of expounding upon his philosophical reflections in his mathematical papers.
In summary...
A mathematician who didn't want to be a philosopher wasn't a proper pretentious bastard!
That was right—could Wang Qi possibly stay above such vulgarity in this field so full of style?
"Only images move like the wind; how may they be known?"
This kind of reading-comprehension essay question where you had to "combine the linguistic context and state