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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. )

并不是我很聪明,而只是我和问题相处得比较久一点。 (It's not that I'm so smart, it's just that I stay with problems longer.

不要担心你在数学上遇到的困难;我敢保证我遇到的困难比你还大得多。(Do not worry about your difficulties in Mathematics. I can assure you mine are still greater. )

不要试图去做一个成功的人,要努力成为一个有价值的人。 (Try not to become a man of success, but rather try to become a man of value. )

常识就是人到十八岁为止所累积的各种偏见。(Common sense is the collection of prejudices acquired by age eighteen. )

创新不是由逻辑思维带来的,尽管最后的产物有赖于一个符合逻辑的结构。(Innovation is not the product of logical thought, even though the final product is tied to a logical structure. )

创新的秘密在于知道如何把你的智谋藏而不露。 (The secret to creativity is knowing how to hide your sources. )

当我们的知识之圆扩大之时,我们所面临的未知的圆周也一样。(As our circle of knowledge expands, so does the circumference of darkness surrounding it. )

道德毫无神圣之处;它纯粹只是人之常情。 ( There is nothing divine about morality;it is a purely human affair. )

法律本身并不能保证言论自由;要做到这一点,必需要所有的人都有着包容的心。(Laws alone can not secure freedom of expression; in order that every man present his views without penalty there must be spirit of tolerance in the entire population. )

方程式对我更重要,因为政治只看眼前,而方程式是永恒的。(Equations are more important to me, because politics is for the present, but an equation is something for eternity. )

后世之人大概不会相信,这样一个人(圣雄甘地)曾有血有肉地走在这地球上。(Generations to come will scarcely believe that such a one as this walked the earth in flesh and blood. )

教育就是当一个人把在学校所学全部忘光之后剩下的东西。(Education is what remains after one has forgotten everything he learned in school. )

精神错乱:一遍又一遍地重复作同一件事,而期待会有不同的结果。(Insanity: doing the same thing over and over again and expecting different results. )

科学的全部不过就是日常思考的提炼。 (The whole of science is nothing more than a refinement of everyday thinking. )

科学是个美妙的东西——如果无须靠它维生的话。(Science is a wonderful thing if one does not have to earn one's living at it.)

没有侥幸这回事,最偶然的意外,似乎也都是事有必然的。--《教育论》

没有信仰的科学是瘸子,没有科学的信仰是瞎子。(Science without religion is lame, religion without science is blind.)

人生就像骑单车。想保持平衡就得往前走。(Life is like riding a bicycle. To keep your balance you must keep moving. )

人只有献身于社会,才能找出那实际上是短暂而有风险的生命的意义。

任何一个有智力的笨蛋都可以把事情搞得更大,更复杂,也更激烈。往相反的方向前进则需要天份,以及很大的勇气。(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.)

如果A代表一个人的成功,那么A等于x加y加z。勤奋工作是x;y是玩耍,而z是把嘴闭上。(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. )

如果我们知道我们在做什么,那么这就不叫科学研究了;不是吗?(If we knew what we were doing, it wouldn't be called research, would it? )

如果一个想法在一开始不是荒谬的,那它就是没有希望的。(If at first the idea is not absurd, then there is no hope for it.)

如果有来世,我要去做一个商人。 (If I had to live my life over again, I would live it as a trader of goods. )

上帝不掷骰子。

世界上最让我难以理解的就是所得税。(The hardest thing to understand in the world is the income tax. )

所谓现实只不过是一个错觉,虽然这个错觉非常持久。(Reality is merely an illusion, albeit a very persistent one.)

态度上的弱点会变成性格上的弱点。 (Weakness of attitude becomes weakness of character. )

天才和愚蠢之间的区别就是天才有它的限制。(The difference between genius and stupidity is that genius has its limits. )

为了惩罚我蔑视权威,命运也将我变成了一个权威。

我并不假装理解宇宙——它比我大多了。(I don't pretend to understand the universe— it's much bigger than I am. )

我不知道第三次世界大战会用哪些武器,但第四次世界大战中人们肯定用的是木棍和石块。(I do not know with what weapons World War III will be fought, but World War IV will be fought with sticks and stones. )

我从不去想未来。因为它来得已经够快的了。(I never think of the future. It comes soon enough. )

我每天提醒自己一百遍,我的生活,不管内在或是外在,都是以他人(包括活着的和逝去的)努力的成果为基础。所以我必须尽力奉献自己,希望能以同等的贡献,来回报长久以来从他人身上所获得的一切。(A hundred times every day I remind myself that my inner and outer life are based on the labors of other men, living and dead, and that I must exert myself in order to give in the same measure as I have received and am still receiving... )

我们不能用制造问题时的同一水平思维来解决问题。(The significant problems we face cannot be solved at the same level of thinking we were at when we created them. )

我们的主很狡猾,好在他不怀歹意。(Subtle is the Lord, but malicious He is not. )

我认为只有大胆的臆测,而不是事实的积累,才能引领我们往前迈进。(I think that only daring speculation can lead us further and not accumulation of facts.)

我喜欢旅行,但不喜欢到达目的地。(I love to travel, but hate to arrive.)

我想知道上帝的构思;其他的都只是细节。(I want to know God's thoughts; the rest are details.)

我信仰史宾诺莎的上帝,祂以宇宙的秩序与和谐来示现,而不是那个会干涉人类命运和行为的上帝。(I believe in Spinoza's God, Who reveals Himself in the lawful harmony of the world, not in a God Who concerns Himself with the fate and the doings of mankind. )

武力不能维持和平。只有互相理解才可以。(Peace cannot be kept by force. It can only be achieved by understanding. )

想像力比知识更重要。因为知识是有限的,而想像力是无限,它包含了一切,推动着进步,是人类进化的源泉。(Imagination is more important than knowledge. For knowledge is limited, whereas imagination embraces the entire world, stimulating progress, giving birth to evolution. )

要打破人的偏见比崩解一个原子还难。(It is harder to crack a prejudice than an atom. )

一个从未犯错的人是因为他不曾尝试新鲜事物。(Anyone who has never made a mistake has never tried anything new.)

一个快乐的人总是满足于当下,而不太浪费时间去想未来的事。

一个人的价值,应当看他贡献什么,而不是看他取得什么。

一名热衷于宗教的人之所以会虔诚,是在于他们对没有或不具备理性基础的超自然物体与其宗旨所展现的意义及其崇高上不存有任何怀疑。

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后我们的科学技术了。(It has become appallingly obvious that our technology has exceeded our humanity. )

宇宙中威力最强大的就是复利息。 (The most powerful force in the universe is compound interest. )

宇宙中唯有两件事物是无限的:那就是宇宙的大小与人的愚蠢。而宇宙的大小我却不能肯定。(Zwei Dinge sind unendlich: Das Universum und die menschliche Dummheit. Aber beim Universum bin ich mir nicht ganz sicher. )

原子能的释放并没有创造新的问题。它仅仅是把解决一个现有问题的工作变得更为急迫。 (The release of atomic energy has not created a new problem. It has merely made more urgent the necessity of solving an existing one. )

在上帝面前,我们都一样聪明——也都一样愚蠢。(Before God we are all equally wise— and equally foolish. )

在我看来,现在有许多人—甚至包括科学家—似乎都只是见树不见林。关于历史与哲学背景的知识,可以提供给那些大部份正受到当代偏颇观念所左右的科学家们一种不随波逐流的独立性。这种由哲学的洞察力所创造的独立性,依我来看,正是一个工匠或专家,与一个真正的真理追寻者之间,最大的区别。(So many people today — and even professional scientists — seem to me like someone who has seen thousands of trees but has never seen a forest. A knowledge of the historic and philosophical background gives that kind of independence from prejudices of his generation from which most scientists are suffering. This independence created by philosophical insight is — in my opinion — the mark of distinction between a mere artisan or specialist and a real seeker after truth. )

这个世界最不可理解的就是它竟然是可以理解的。(The most incomprehensible thing about the world is that it is at all comprehensible. )

真理就是在经验面前站得住脚的东西。 (Truth is what stands the test of experience. )

真正使我感兴趣的是上帝创造世界的时候有没有别的方案可选。 (What really interests me is whether God had any choice in the creation of the world. )

真正有价值的是直觉。在探索的道路上智力无甚用处。(The only real valuable thing is intuition. The intellect has little to do on the road to discovery. )

只要我还能有所选择,我就只想生活在这样的国家里,这个国家中所实行的是:公民、自由、宽容,以及在法律面前公民一律平等。公民自由意味着人们有用言语和文字表示其政治信念的自由;宽容意味着尊重别人可能有的任何信念。这些条件目前在德国都不存在。那些对国际谅解事业有特别重大贡献的人,在那里正受到迫害,其中就有一些是一流的艺术家。

只有利他的生活才是值得过的生活。(Only a life lived for others is a life worthwhile. )

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