愛因斯坦經典語錄

阿爾伯特·愛因斯坦(Albert Einstein，1879年3月14日—1955年4月18日)，偉大的理論物理學家。愛因斯坦(Albert Einstrin)是一個富有宗教情懷的人。他認爲奧祕感是科學和藝術的共通泉源，此奧祕感從面對浩瀚的宇宙及其和諧的結構和規律，油然而生的敬畏驚奇(Awe)和謙卑(Humility)之情。“敬畏”因爲體認到和諧秩序所顯示的高超精神(Spirit)和智慧(Intelligence);“謙卑”，由於人對宇宙奧祕的認識實在微不足道。

崇高的信仰也決定了愛因斯坦的行爲方式。在愛因斯坦眼裏，真理是樸素的;在世人眼裏，掌握真理的愛因斯坦也是樸素的，這不僅體現在他的日常生活非常簡樸，更體現在他毫無虛榮心、毫不冷漠、毫無惡意、毫無優越感。 下面是總結的一些愛因斯坦經典語錄：

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、「沒有宗教的科學是跛的，沒有科學的宗教是瞎的。」

3、只要我還能有所選擇，我就只想生活在這樣的國家裏，這個國家中所實行的是：公民、自由、寬容，以及在法律面前公民一律平等。公民自由意味着人們有用言語和文字表示其政治信念的自由;寬容意味着尊重別人的無論哪種可能有的'信念。這些條件目前在德國都不存在。那些對國際諒解事業有特別重大貢獻的人，在那裏正受到迫害，其中就有一些是一流的藝術家。

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，數學家們又把我歸爲物理工作者。我是一個完全孤立的人，雖然所有人都認識我，卻沒有多少人真正瞭解我。

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、一個人從未犯錯是因爲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爲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，因爲政治是爲了現在，而公式是永恆的。

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

15、上帝並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.

16、萬有引力並不是那些陷入愛河的人找人算帳時的目標。

原文:Gravitation cannot be held responsible for people falling in love.

17、我無法知道第三次世界大戰會有什麼武器登場，但第四次世界大戰中人們肯定用的是木棍和石塊。

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

19、我並不假裝理解宇宙——它比我大得多。

原文:I don't pretend to understand the universe— it's much bigger than I am.

20、我喜歡旅行，但我不喜歡到達。

原文:I love to travel, but hate to arrive.

21、我從不展望未來。它來得夠快的了。

原文:I never think of the future. It comes soon enough.

22、我認爲只有大膽的投機，而不是信息的積累才能把我們往前推。

原文:I think that only daring speculation can lead us further and not accumulation of facts.

23、我想知道上帝的構思;其他的都是細節。

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

24、如果A代表一個人的成功，那麼A等於x加y加z。勤奮工作是x;y是娛樂，而z是把嘴閉上。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.

25、如果我再次成爲一個展望人生的年輕人，我不會選擇成爲一個科學家、學者或是教師。我寧可去做一個水管工或是小商販，只期盼能當今社會還有一定程度上的自由。

原文:If I would be a young man again and had to decide how to make my living, I would not try to become a scientist or scholar or teacher. I would rather choose to be a plumber or a peddler in the hope to find that modest degree of independence still available under present circumstances.

26、如果我的相對論被證明是正確的，德國人就會說我是德國人，法國佬會說我是一個世界公民。如果我的相對論被否定了，法國佬就會罵我德國鬼子而德國人就會把我歸爲猶太人。

原文:If my theory of relativity is proven correct, Germany will claim me as a German and France will say I am a man of the world. If it's proven wrong, France will say I am a German and Germany will say I am a Jew.

27、如果我們知道我們在做什麼，那麼這就不叫科學研究了;不是嗎?

原文:If we knew what we were doing, it wouldn't be called research, would it?

28、創新不是由邏輯思維帶來的，儘管最後的成果需要一個符合邏輯的結構。

原文:Innovation is not the product of logical thought, even though the final product is tied to a logical structure.

29、精神錯亂：一遍又一遍地重複同一件事而期待不同的結果。

原文:Insanity: doing the same thing over and over again and expecting different results.

30、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.

31、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.

32、法律本身並不能保證言論自由;要做到這一點必須使整個人羣中都瀰漫着容忍的勇氣。

原文: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.

33、人生就像騎單車。想保持平衡就得往前走。

原文:Life is like riding a bicycle. To keep your balance you must keep moving.

34、只有無私的生命才值得活。

原文:Only a life lived for others is a life worthwhile.

36、武力不能維持和平。只有互相理解纔可以。

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

37、真相其實只是一個幻象，雖然這個幻象相當頑固。

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

38、科學是好東西，只要它不跟任何人的飯碗掛鉤就行。

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

39、我們的主很狡猾，好在他不懷歹意。

原文:Subtle is the Lord, but malicious He is not.

40、天才和愚蠢之間的區別就是天才有它的限制。

原文:The difference between genius and stupidity is that genius has its limits.

41、其可理解性是這個世界永遠的謎。

原文:The eternal mystery of the world is its comprehensibility.

42、世界上最讓我難以理解的就是所得稅。

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

43、這個世界最不可理解的就是它是完全可以理解的。

原文:The most incomprehensible thing about the world is that it is at all comprehensible.

44、真正有價值的是直覺。在探索的道路上智力無甚用處。

原文:The only real valuable thing is intuition. The intellect has little to do on the road to discovery.

45、當今世界的種種困難並不能被創造它們的人的思維層次解決。

原文:The problems that exist in the world today cannot be solved by the level of thinking that created them.

46、原子能的釋放並沒有創造新的問題。它僅僅是把解決一個現有問題的工作變得更爲急迫。

原文:The release of atomic energy has not created a new problem. It has merely made more urgent the necessity of solving an existing one.

47、擁有創造性的祕密就是把信息來源藏起來。

原文:The secret to creativity is knowing how to hide your sources.

48、科學的全部就是正常思維的一個精緻版本。

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

49、真理就是在實踐面前站得住腳的東西。

原文:Truth is what stands the test of experience.

50、兩件事情讓我敬畏：佈滿星星的天堂和被包含其中的精神宇宙。

原文:Two things inspire me to awe: the starry heavens and the moral universe within.

51、不必努力去做一個成功者，盡力去成爲一個有價值者。

原文:Try not to become a man of success, but rather try to become a man of value.

52、態度上的弱點會變成性格上的弱點。

原文:Weakness of attitude becomes weakness of character.

53、真正使我感興趣的是上帝創造世界的時候有沒有別的方案可選。

原文:What really interests me is whether God had any choice in the creation of the world.

54、如果有來世，我要去做一個商人。

原文:If I had to live my life over again, I would live it as a trader of goods.

55、如果我給你一個芬尼，你的財富增長而我的財富縮減，幅度都是一個芬尼。但如果我給你一點想法，儘管你有了新的想法，我卻並沒損失什麼。

原文:If I give you a pfennig, you will be one pfennig richer and I'll be one pfennig poorer. But if I give you an idea, you will have a new idea, but I shall still have it, too.

56、並不是我很聰明，而只是我和問題相處得比較久一點。

原文:It's not that I'm so smart, it's just that I stay with problems longer.

57、宇宙中最強大的力就是利滾利。

原文:The most powerful force in the universe is compound interest.

58、宇宙中唯有兩件事物是無限的：那就是宇宙的大小與人的蠢笨。然而宇宙的大小我卻不能肯定。