If, then, this--the matter--is some definite thing, evidently the numbers themselves too will be ratios of something to something else.

那么，如果这个——物质——是某种确定的事物，那么显然数字本身也将是某种事物与另一种事物的比率。

I think children are more dependent upon technology and I see that as, as a definite negative thing because children don't play out as they used to before.

我认为孩子们更依赖科技，而我认为那绝对是负面的事情，因为孩子们不向以前那样去外面玩了。

You are made into an efficient instrument for doing a definite thing, you hear, at the schools; but, apart from that, you may remain a crude and smoky kind of petroleum, incapable of spreading light.

你听说，在学校里，你被培养成做某件事的有效工具；但是，除此之外，您可能仍然是一种粗糙且冒烟的石油，无法传播光。