爱因斯坦经典语录附带原文
1、把你的手放在滚热的炉子上一分钟,感觉起来像一小时。坐在一个漂亮姑娘身边整整一小时,感觉起来像一分钟。这就是相对论。
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、有一个现象的明显程度已经让我毛骨悚然,这便是我们的人性已经远远落後我们的科学技术了。
原文:It has become appallingly obvious that our technology has exceeded our humanity.
3、掰开人身上的偏见比掰开一个原子难的多。
原文:It is harder to crack a prejudice than an atom.
4、测量一个物体的质量就是测量其中的能量。
原文:The mass of a body is a measure of its energy content.
5、物理学家们说我是数学家,数学家们又把我归为物理工作者。我是一个完全孤立的人,虽然所有人都认识我,却没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、那我只能对亲爱的主表示遗憾。相对论是正确的。
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、一个聪明的笨蛋可以把事情做得更大,把事情做得更复杂,也更暴力。这个过程需要一点天才——很多的信念——只是朝着相反的方向。
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、一个人从未犯错是因为他不曾尝试新鲜事物。
原文:Anyone who has never made a mistake has never tried anything new.
9、当知识的圆周扩大之时,黑暗的圆周也一样。
原文:As our circle of knowledge expands, so does the circumference of darkness surrounding it.
10、在上帝面前我们都一样聪明——也都一样愚蠢。
原文:Before God we are all equally wise— and equally foolish.
11、常识就是人到十八岁为止所累积的各种偏见。
原文:Common sense is the collection of prejudices acquired by age eighteen.
12、不要担心数学问题;我保证我的问题要大得多。
原文:Do not worry about your difficulties in Mathematics. I can assure you mine are still greater.
13、教育就是当一个人把在学校所学全部忘光之後剩下的东西。
原文:Education is what remains after one has forgotten everything he learned in school.
14、公式对我更重要,因为政治是为了现在,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、上帝并不在乎我们的数学困难。他以经验来管理大局。
原文:God does not care about our mathematical difficulties. He integrates empirically.