爱因斯坦名言录

“想像力比知识更重要。”

"Imagination is more important than knowledge."

 

“不是每件可以算数的事都可以计算，不是每件可以计算的事都可以算数。”

"Not everything that counts can be counted, and not everything that can be counted counts."

 

“命运为了惩罚我蔑视权威，于是使我自己也成为一个权威。”

-真理永远掌握在少数人手中

 

“惟一会妨碍我学习的是，我所受到的教育。”

"The only thing that interferes with my learning is my education."

-混沌让你无知先前教育的正确性

 

“在我审视我自己和我的思考方式时，我的结论是：在吸收有益的知识方面，奇思玄想的天赋对我而言，比我的才干更重要。”

-imagination

 

“很少有人能镇定地表达与他们的社会环境之偏见相左的意见。大多数人甚至无法形成这种意见。”

-真理的本性

 

“数学法则只要与现实有关的，都是不确定的；若是确定的，都与现实无关。”

-抽象的数学

 

“科学是一件美好的事，如果人无需赖此维生的话。”

"Science is a wonderful thing if one does not have to earn one's living at it."

-科学应该是抽象的

 

“书读得太多，而脑筋用得太少的人，都会落入懒得思考的习惯。”

-就象我

 

“任何聪明的傻瓜都可以让事情更大、更复杂、更激烈。要往反方向发展需要一丝天分以及许多勇气。”

"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."

-宇宙是简单而优美的

 

“伟大的心灵总是会遭逢凡夫俗子顽强的抵抗。”

"Great spirits have often encountered violent opposition from weak minds."

 

"Great spirits have always found violent opposition from mediocrities. The latter cannot understand it when a man does not thoughtlessly submit to hereditary prejudices but honestly and courageously uses his intelligence."

-just let go

 

“凡是自命为知识与真理领域的评审员的人，都会被众神的讪笑所毁灭。”

-真理就是真理

 

“真实只是一种幻觉，尽管是一种挥之不去的幻觉。”

"Reality is merely an illusion, albeit a very persistent one."

 

“我没有特殊天赋，我只是极为好奇。”

   

“常识就是到十八岁时所累积的偏见。”

"Common sense is the collection of prejudices acquired by age eighteen."

-阻碍我发展的就是这些偏见，消除绝对，用“易”生活

 

“整个科学只不过是每日思考的精练。”

"The whole of science is nothing more than a refinement of everyday thinking."

-每个人每日思考，依照概率，每天都会有新思想，新科学

 

“如果我们知道我们在做什么，那就不能称为研究了，不是吗？”

-面朝大海

 

“这个世界最令人不解的事情是，它是可以理解的。”

-？？

 

“重点是：发展儿童般渴望认知的欲望，并将这儿童引导至重要的社会领域。”

-好奇

 

“物理学的概念是人类心智的自由产物，它不是全然由外在世界决定的，无论它看来是否如此。”

-物理=数学

 

“不是我聪明，只是我和问题周旋得比较久。”

 

“坚持不懈就是天才。”

 

“时间存在的惟一理由是，如此才不会所有事情同时发生。”

 

“创意的奥秘是知道如何隐藏你的来源。”

"The secret to creativity is knowing how to hide your sources."

 

“不曾犯错的人什么新生事物都没试过。”

"Anyone who has never made a mistake has never tried anything new."

-learn from mistake

 

“如果Ａ代表人生的功成名就，Ａ＝x+y+z。x代表工作，y代表游戏，z代表闭嘴。”

"If A is a success in life, then A equals x plus y plus z. Work is x; y is play; and z is keeping your mouth shut."

-A^N = x * y * z

 

“重要的是，不要停止质疑。”

“好奇心的存在，自有它的道理。”

"The important thing is not to stop questioning. Curiosity has its own reason for existing."

 

“用自己的眼睛看，用自己的心感受的人屈指可数。”

 

“创造问题的大脑不能用来解决问题。”

"We can't solve problems by using the same kind of thinking we used when we created them."

 

"Gravitation is not responsible for people falling in love."

"I want to know God's thoughts; the rest are details."

"The hardest thing in the world to understand is the income tax."

"The only real valuable thing is intuition."

"A person starts to live when he can live outside himself."

"I am convinced that He (God) does not play dice."

"God is subtle but he is not malicious."

"Weakness of attitude becomes weakness of character."

"I never think of the future. It comes soon enough."

"The eternal mystery of the world is its comprehensibility."

"Sometimes one pays most for the things one gets for nothing."

"Science without religion is lame. Religion without science is blind."

"Everything should be made as simple as possible, but not simpler."

"God does not care about our mathematical difficulties. He integrates empirically."

"Technological progress is like an axe in the hands of a pathological criminal."

"Peace cannot be kept by force. It can only be achieved by understanding."

"The most incomprehensible thing about the world is that it is comprehensible."

"Education is what remains after one has forgotten everything he learned in school."

"Do not worry about your difficulties in Mathematics. I can assure you mine are still greater."

"Equations are more important to me, because politics is for the present, but an equation is something for eternity."

"Two things are infinite: the universe and human stupidity; and I'm not sure about the the universe."

"As far as the laws of mathematics refer to reality, they are not certain, as far as they are certain, they do not refer to reality."

"Whoever undertakes to set himself up as a judge of Truth and Knowledge is shipwrecked by the laughter of the gods."

"I know not with what weapons World War III will be fought, but World War IV will be fought with sticks and stones."

"In order to form an immaculate member of a flock of sheep one must, above all, be a sheep."

"The fear of death is the most unjustified of all fears, for there's no risk of accident for someone who's dead."

"Too many of us look upon Americans as dollar chasers. This is a cruel libel, even if it is reiterated thoughtlessly by the Americans themselves."

"Heroism on command, senseless violence, and all the loathsome nonsense that goes by the name of patriotism -- how passionately I hate them!"

"No, this trick won't work...How on earth are you ever going to explain in terms of chemistry and physics so important a biological phenomenon as first love?"

"My religion consists of a humble admiration of the illimitable superior spirit who reveals himself in the slight details we are able to perceive with our frail and feeble mind."

"Yes, we have to divide up our time like that, between our politics and our equations. But to me our equations are far more important, for politics are only a matter of present concern. A mathematical equation stands forever."

"The release of atom power has changed everything except our way of thinking...the solution to this problem lies in the heart of mankind. If only I had known, I should have become a watchmaker."

"The most beautiful thing we can experience is the mysterious. It is the source of all true art and all science. He to whom this emotion is a stranger, who can no longer pause to wonder and stand rapt in awe, is as good as dead: his eyes are closed."

"A man's ethical behavior should be based effectually on sympathy, education, and social ties; no religious basis is necessary. Man would indeeded be in a poor way if he had to be restrained by fear of punishment and hope of reward after death."

"The further the spiritual evolution of mankind advances, the more certain it seems to me that the path to genuine religiosity does not lie through the fear of life, and the fear of death, and blind faith, but through striving after rational knowledge."

"Now he has departed from this strange world a little ahead of me. That means nothing. People like us, who believe in physics, know that the distinction between past, present, and future is only a stubbornly persistent illusion."

"You see, wire telegraph is a kind of a very, very long cat. You pull his tail in New York and his head is meowing in Los Angeles. Do you understand this? And radio operates exactly the same way: you send signals here, they receive them there. The only difference is that there is no cat."

"One had to cram all this stuff into one's mind for the examinations, whether one liked it or not. This coercion had such a deterring effect on me that, after I had passed the final examination, I found the consideration of any scientific problems distasteful to me for an entire year."

"...one of the strongest motives that lead men to art and science is escape from everyday life with its painful crudity and hopeless dreariness, from the fetters of one's own ever-shifting desires. A finely tempered nature longs to escape from the personal life into the world of objective perception and thought."

"He who joyfully marches to music rank and file, has already earned my contempt. He has been given a large brain by mistake, since for him the spinal cord would surely suffice. This disgrace to civilization should be done away with at once. Heroism at command, how violently I hate all this, how despicable and ignoble war is; I would rather be torn to shreds than be a part of so base an action. It is my conviction that killing under the cloak of war is nothing but an act of murder."

"A human being is a part of a whole, called by us _universe_, a part limited in time and space. He experiences himself, his thoughts and feelings as something separated from the rest... a kind of optical delusion of his consciousness. This delusion is a kind of prison for us, restricting us to our personal desires and to affection for a few persons nearest to us. Our task must be to free ourselves from this prison by widening our circle of compassion to embrace all living creatures and the whole of nature in its beauty."