愛因斯坦經典語錄附帶原文
1、把你的手放在滾熱的爐子上一分鐘,感覺起來像一小時。坐在一個漂亮姑娘身邊整整一小時,感覺起來像一分鐘。這就是相對論。
Put your hand on a hot stove for a minute, and it seems like an hour. Sit with a pretty girl for an hour, and it seems like a minute. That's relativity.
2、有一個現象的明顯程度已經讓我毛骨悚然,這便是我們的人性已經遠遠落後我們的科學技術了。
原文:It has become appallingly obvious that our technology has exceeded our humanity.
3、掰開人身上的偏見比掰開一個原子難的多。
原文:It is harder to crack a prejudice than an atom.
4、測量一個物體的質量就是測量其中的能量。
原文:The mass of a body is a measure of its energy content.
5、物理學家們說我是數學家,數學家們又把我歸為物理工作者。我是一個完全孤立的人,雖然所有人都認識我,卻沒有多少人真正了解我。
原文:The physicists say that I am a mathematician, and the mathematicians say that I am a physicist. I am a completely isolated man and though everybody knows me, there are very few people who really know me.
6、那我只能對親愛的主表示遺憾。相對論是正確的。
原文:Then I would have felt sorry for the dear Lord. The theory is correct. - When asked by a student what he would have done if Sir Arthur Eddington's famous 1919 gravitational lensing experiment, which confirmed relativity, had instead disproved it.
7、一個聰明的笨蛋可以把事情做得更大,把事情做得更復雜,也更暴力。這個過程需要一點天才——很多的信念——只是朝著相反的方向。
原文:Any intelligent fool can make things bigger, more complex, and more violent. It takes a touch of genius— and a lot of courage— to move in the opposite direction.
8、一個人從未犯錯是因為他不曾嘗試新鮮事物。
原文:Anyone who has never made a mistake has never tried anything new.
9、當知識的圓周擴大之時,黑暗的圓周也一樣。
原文:As our circle of knowledge expands, so does the circumference of darkness surrounding it.
10、在上帝面前我們都一樣聰明——也都一樣愚蠢。
原文:Before God we are all equally wise— and equally foolish.
11、常識就是人到十八歲為止所累積的各種偏見。
原文:Common sense is the collection of prejudices acquired by age eighteen.
12、不要擔心數學問題;我保證我的問題要大得多。
原文:Do not worry about your difficulties in Mathematics. I can assure you mine are still greater.
13、教育就是當一個人把在學校所學全部忘光之後剩下的東西。
原文:Education is what remains after one has forgotten everything he learned in school.
14、公式對我更重要,因為政治是為了現在,而公式是永恒的。
原文:Equations are more important to me, because politics is for the present, but an equation is something for eternity.
15、上帝并不在乎我們的數學困難。他以經驗來管理大局。
原文:God does not care about our mathematical difficulties. He integrates empirically.