精选重译爱因斯坦名言，值得和孩子们一起经常读一读|宇宙|芬尼|相对论|科学家|数学家|天文学家|物理学家|thinking|阿尔伯特·爱因斯坦

前言：爱因斯坦不仅是伟大的科学家，也是一位伟大的思想家。因本人身份职业的缘故，对爱因斯坦不仅崇敬而且有些研究。我特地花了一些时间重新梳理编译了爱因斯坦的名言，此次整理基于三个原则：（1）坚决剔除经考证非出自爱因斯坦本人的；（2）仔细核查爱因斯坦究竟是怎么说的，恢复文意原貌；（3）根据原英文并参考国内外资料，重新进行誊写翻译，纠正以讹传讹之错谬，力求更准确贴切流畅。【转载时请忠实于原作】爱因斯坦名言（Einstein Quotes）* 如果我的相对论被证明是正确的，德国人就会说我是德国人，法国佬会说我是一个世界公民；如果我的相对论被否定了，法国佬就会骂我德国鬼子，而德国人就会把我归为犹太人。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.* 人生就像骑单车，要想保持平衡就得一直往前进。原文: Life is like riding a bicycle. To keep your balance you must keep moving.* 如果你想过上幸福生活，就把它与目标联系起来，而不是与人或事联系在一起。原文: If you want to live a happy life, tie it to a goal, not to people or things.* 成功来自好奇心、专注力、毅力和自我批评。原文: Success comes from curiosity, concentration, perseverance and self-criticism.* 我从不去想未来，因为它来得够快的了。原文: I never think of the future. It comes soon enough.* 精神错乱就是一遍又一遍地重复同一件事而期待不同的结果。原文: Insanity is doing the same thing over and over again and expecting different results.* 人只有献身于社会，才能发现短暂而危险之生命的意义。原文: Man can find meaning in life, short and perilous as it is, only through devoting himself to society* 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。原文: 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.* 如果我再次成为一个展望人生的年轻人，我不会试图成为科学家、学者或教师。我宁愿选择当一名水管工或是小商贩，希望在当前环境下仍能获得适度的独立性。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.* 聪明人解决问题，智慧人避免问题。原文: A clever person solves a problem; a wise person avoids it.* 不要试图去做一个成功的人，要努力成为一个有价值的人。原文: Try not to become a man of success, but rather try to become a man of value.* 要打破人的偏见比崩解一个原子还难。原文: It is harder to crack a prejudice than an atom.* 唯一比无知更危险的是傲慢。原文: The only thing more dangerous than ignorance is arrogance.* 软弱的人寻求复仇，坚强的人选择原谅，聪明的人则会无视。原文: Weak people revenge. Strong people forgive, Intelligent people ignore.* 真正有价值的东西都不是来自野心或单纯的责任感，而是源自于对人和客观事物的爱与奉献。。原文: Nothing truly valuable arises from ambition or from a mere sense of duty; it stems rather from love and devotion towards men and towards objective things.* 一个快乐的人对当下十分满足，而不过多地考虑未来。原文: A happy man is too satisfied with the present to dwell too much on the future.* 态度上的弱点会变成性格上的弱点。原文: Weakness of attitude becomes weakness of character.* 你看到困难，我就看到机会；每一个困难中都蕴藏着机会。原文: Where you see difficulty, I see opportunity. In the middle of every difficulty lies opportunity.* 我坚信一点，只有为他人而活的人生才是有价值的人生。原文: I believe in one thing—that only a life lived for others is a life worth living.* 让自己开心的最好方法是让别人开心起来。原文: The best way to cheer yourself is to cheer somebody else up.* 我对自己的晚年感到满足；我一直保持着良好的幽默感，既不把自己也不把别人当回事。原文: I am content in my later years. I have kept my good humor and take neither myself nor the next person seriously.* 厚颜无耻万岁！它是我在这个世上的守护天使。原文: Long live impudence! It’s my guardian angel in this world.* 道德毫无神圣之处，它纯属人之常情。原文: There is nothing divine about morality；it is a purely human affair.* 在人生的某个阶段，你需要停止读别人的书，写自己的书。原文: There comes a point in your life when you need to stop reading other people's books and write your own.* 人生就像一场游戏。首先，你必须学会游戏规则，然后比其他人玩得更好。原文: Life is just like a game. First, you have to learn rules of the game, and then play it better than anyone else.* 我每天上百次提醒自己：我的精神生活和物质生活都是以别人（包括生者和死者）的劳动为基础，我必须尽力以同样的分量来报偿我所领受的和至今还在领受的东西。原文: A hundred times every day I remind myself that my inner and outer life depend on the labours 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.* 我必须愿意放弃现在的自己，才能成为将来的自己。原文: I must be willing to give up what I am in order to become what I will be.* 思考是一项艰苦的工作，这就是为什么很少有人这么做。原文: Thinking is hard work; that’s why so few do it.* 万有引力可不能对人们坠入爱河负责。原文: Gravitation cannot be held responsible for people falling in love.* 信息不是知识。知识的唯一来源是经验，你需要经验才能获得智慧。原文: Information is not knowledge. The only source of knowledge is experience. You need experience to gain wisdom.* 当知识的圆圈扩大之时，围绕它的黑暗圆周也一样。原文: As our circle of knowledge expands, so does the circumference of darkness surrounding it.* 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.* 只有去尝试荒谬的人，才能成就不可能的事。原文: Only those who attempt the absurd can achieve the impossible.* 常识就是十八岁以前累积的各种偏见。原文: Common sense is the collection of prejudices acquired by age eighteen.* 每个人都会有陷入愚蠢境地的时候。原文: Everyone has to sacrifice at the altar of stupidity from time to time.* 我生活在孤独中，这种孤独在年轻时是痛苦的，但在成熟的岁月里很美味。原文: I live in that solitude which is painful in youth, but delicious in the years of maturity.* 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.* 我并不假装理解宇宙——它比我大得多。原文: I don't pretend to understand the universe-- it's much bigger than I am.* 要有勇气认真对待自己的想法，因为它们会塑造你。原文: Have the courage to take your own thoughts seriously, for they will shape you.* 应始终把培养独立思考和判断的一般能力放在首位，而不是获得专门知识。原文: The development of general ability for independent thinking and judgment should always be placed foremost, not the acquisition of special knowledge.* 打破人的偏见比崩解一个原子还难。原文: It is harder to crack a prejudice than an atom.* 如果我的相对论被证明是正确的，德国人就会说我是德国人，法国佬会说我是一个世界公民；如果我的相对论被否定了，法国佬就会骂我德国鬼子而德国人就会把我归为犹太人。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.* 已经明显到令人毛骨悚然的是，我们的科技已经超越我们的人性。原文: It has become appallingly obvious that our technology has exceeded our humanity.* 我无法知道第三次世界大战会有什么武器登场，但第四次世界大战中人们肯定用的是木棍和石块。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.* 和平无法靠武力维持，只能通过相互理解达成。原文: Peace cannot be kept by force. It can only be achieved by understanding.* 所谓现实只不过是一个幻象，虽然这幻象非常持久。原文: Reality is merely an illusion, albeit a very persistent one.* 教育是一个人忘记在学校学到的一切之后剩下的东西。原文: Education is what remains after one has forgotten everything he learned in school.* 大学教育的价值不在于学习许多事实，而在于训练用头脑思考。原文: The value of an education in a liberal arts college is not the learning of many facts but the training of the mind to think.* 最重要的是不要停止质疑；好奇心自有它存在的理由。原文: The important thing is not to stop questioning. Curiosity has its own reason for existing.* 促进个性发展很重要，因为只有个人才能产生新的思想。原文: It is important to foster individuality, for only the individual can produce the new ideas.* 好奇心能在正规教育中幸存下来，简直是一个奇迹。原文: It is a miracle that curiosity survives formal education.* 世界永恒的奥秘在于其可理解性‧‧‧‧‧‧它可以被理解是一个奇迹。原文: The eternal mystery of the world is its comprehensibility … The fact that it is comprehensible is a miracle.* 真正有价值的是直觉，在探索的道路上智力无甚用处。原文: The only real valuable thing is intuition. The intellect has little to do on the road to discovery.* 创造性的秘密就是知道如何让灵感来源隐而不显。原文: The secret to creativity is knowing how to hide your sources.* 一个聪明的笨蛋可以把事情做得更大，更复杂，也更暴力；而往相反的方向前进则需要天分和很大的勇气。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.* 要成为羊群中优秀的一员，你就必须先成为一只羊。原文: In order to form an immaculate member of a flock of sheep, one must, above all, be a sheep.* 态度上的弱点会变成性格上的弱点。原文: Weakness of attitude becomes weakness of character.* 并不是我很聪明，只是我和问题相处得更久一点。原文: It's not that I'm so smart, it's just that I stay with problems longer.* 我没有什么特殊的才能，我只是热烈地好奇。原文: I have no special talent. I am only passionately curious.* 有两样东西是无限的：宇宙和人类的愚拙，对于前者我还不很确定。原文: Two things are infinite: the universe and human stupidity; and I'm not sure about the universe.* 一个人的价值在于他奉献了什么，而不是他能得到什么。原文: The value of a man should be seen in what he gives and not in what he is able to receive.* 当你被爱情绊倒，很容易爬起来；但当你坠入爱河，就不可能再站起来了。原文: When you trip over love, it is easy to get up. But when you fall in love, it is impossible to stand again.* 失败和匮乏是最好的教育者和净化者。原文: Failure and deprivation are the best educators and purifiers.* 一个人对社会的价值主要取决于他的情感、思想和行动在多大程度上是为了促进他人的利益。原文: A man’s value to the community depends primarily on how far his feelings, thoughts, and actions are directed towards promoting the good of his fellows.* 一个人应该追寻什么是真实，而不是他认为应该是什么。原文: A man should look for what is, and not for what he thinks should be.* 从没犯错的人只因从不尝试新事物。原文: Anyone who has never made a mistake has never tried anything new.* 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。原文: Do not worry about your difficulties in Mathematics. I can assure you mine are still greater.* 为了惩罚我对权威的蔑视，命运把我自己变成了一个权威。原文: To punish me for my contempt of authority, fate has made me an authority myself.* 如果我给你一个芬尼（硬币），你的财富增长而我的财富减少一个芬尼；但如果我给你一个想法，你将拥有一个新想法，而我也依然拥有着它。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.* 很少有人用自己的眼睛看，用自己的心感受。原文: Few are those who see with their own eyes, and feel with their own hearts.* 仅靠法律不能保障言论自由；为了每个人可以在不受惩罚的情况下发表自己的观点，全体人民必须有宽容的精神。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.* 每个人都应作为独立个体受到尊重，但不应将任何人视为偶像。原文: Everyone should be respected as an individual, but no one idolized.* 远离消极的人，他们觉得每个解决方案都有毛病。原文: Stay away from negative people, they have a problem for every solution.* 知识是指引我们前进的地图，而想象力则是我们自由驰骋、寻找答案和机遇的领地；想象力不受约束，它是运用知识的力量。原文: Knowledge is a map that guides us while imagination is the territory where we can roam freely and search for answers and opportunities. Imagination knows no restraint and it is the power that puts knowledge to use.”* 深入观察自然，你就能更好地理解一切。原文: Look deep into nature, and then you will understand everything better.* 想象是灵魂的语言；注意你的想象力，你会发现你需要成就和满足的一切。原文: Imagination is the language of the soul. Pay attention to your imagination and you will discover all you need to be fulfilled.* 对所有人来说，只有爱才是最好的老师，它远胜于责任。原文: For all, only love is the best teacher, it is far better than the responsibility.* 一旦我们接受了自己的极限，我们就会超越它们。原文: Once we accept our limits, we go beyond them.* 在小事上不在意真理的人，在大事上是不可信任的。原文: Whoever is careless with the truth in small matters cannot be trusted with important matters.* 愚蠢与天才的区别在于天才是有其局限性的。原文: The difference between stupidity and genius is that genius has its limits.* 永远不要放弃你真正想做的；拥有远大梦想的人比拥有所有事实的人更有力量。原文: Never give up on what you really want to do. The person with big dreams is more powerful than one with all the facts.* 真理就是在经验面前站得住脚的东西。原文: Truth is what stands the test of experience.* 真正使我感兴趣的是上帝创造世界时是否有其它选择。原文: What really interests me is whether God had any choice in the creation of the world.* 我信仰斯宾诺莎的上帝，他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。原文: 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.* 无论如何，我相信上帝不玩骰子。原文: Quantum mechanics … delivers much, but does not really bring us any closer to the secret of the Old One. I, at any rate, am convinced that He does not play dice.* 想像力比知识更重要，因为知识是有限的，而想像力囊括整个世界，激励着进步，孕育了变革。原文: Imagination is more important than knowledge. For knowledge is limited, whereas imagination embraces the entire world, stimulating progress, giving birth to evolution.* 唯一妨碍我学习的就是我的教育。原文: The only thing that interferes with my learning is my education.* 创造力就是看到别人所看到的，想别人从未想到过的。原文: Creativity is seeing what others see and thinking what no one else has ever thought.* 如果一个想法在起初不是荒谬的，那它就是没有希望的。原文: If at first the idea is not absurd, then there is no hope for it.* 世界不会被那些作恶多端的人毁灭，而是被那些袖手旁观的人毁灭。原文: The world will not be destroyed by those who do evil, but by those who watch them without doing anything.* 上帝没有创造邪恶；正如黑暗是光明的缺失，邪恶是上帝的缺席。原文: God did not create evil. Just as darkness is the absence of light, evil is the absence of God.* 学校应当始终以学生离开时成为和谐的人，而不仅仅是专家为目标。原文: Schools should always have as its aim, that its students leave it as harmonious personalities, and not just specialists.* 如果你不能简单地解释，那就是你理解得不够透彻。原文: If you can't explain it simply, you don't understand it well enough.* 我认为，素食主义的生活方式对人类性情的纯粹生理影响将对人类的命运产生最有益的影响。原文: It is my view that the vegetarian manner of living by its purely physical effect on the human temperament would most beneficially influence the lot of mankind.* 如果人们做好事只是因为害怕惩罚、希望得到回报，那我们就真的太可怜了。原文: If people are good only because they fear punishment, and hope for reward, then we are a sorry lot indeed.* 逻辑会把你从A带到B，而想象力让你无处不在。原文: Logic will get you from A to B. Imagination will take you everywhere.* 当我评判一个理论时，我问自己，如果我是上帝，我是否会以这样的方式安排世界。原文: When I am judging a theory, I ask myself whether, if I were God, I would have arranged the world in such a way.* 如果我们知道自己在做什么，那就不叫研究了，不是吗？原文: If we knew what we were doing, it wouldn't be called research, would it?* 我们的任务必须是通过扩大我们的同情心圈子，拥抱全人类和整个自然的美丽，将自己从狭隘之监牢中解放出来。原文: Our task must be to free ourselves from our prison by widening our circle of compassion to embrace all humanity and the whole of nature in its beauty.* 巧合是上帝保持匿名的方式。原文: Coincidence is God's way of remaining anonymous.* 上帝深奥难明，但绝无恶意。原文: Subtle is the Lord, but malicious He is not.* 提出新的问题、新的可能性，从新的角度看待老问题，这需要创造性的想象力，也标志着科学的真正进步。原文: To raise new questions, new possibilities, to regard old problems from a new angle, requires creative imagination and marks real advance in science.* 宇宙中最强大的力量是复利。原文: The most powerful force in the universe is compound interest.* 傻瓜都能知道，关键是要理解。原文: Any fool can know. The point is to understand.* 想象力就是一切，它是生活中即将到来之精彩的预演。原文: Imagination is everything. It is the preview of life's coming attractions.* 我相信一种简单而谦逊的生活方式对每个人都是最有益的，对身体和心灵都是最好的。原文: I believe that a simple and unassuming manner of life is best for everyone, best both for the body and the mind.* 这才是最高效的学习方式，当你做一件事时是如此享受，以至于不会注意到时间的流逝。原文: That is the way to learn the most, that when you are doing something with such enjoyment that you don’t notice that the time passes.* 教育的目的必须是培养独立行动、独立思考的人，而这些人终将在服务社会中实现人生的最高成就。原文: The aim of education must be the training of independently acting and thinking individuals who, however, can see in the service to the community their highest life achievement.* 这让我清楚地意识到，基于自由行动和个人责任的教育比依赖外在权威的教育要优越得多。原文: It made me clearly realize how much superior an education based on free action and personal responsibility is to one relying on outward authority.* 在创造性的表达和知识中唤醒快乐是教师的最高艺术。原文: It is the supreme art of the teacher to awaken joy in creative expression and knowledge.* 只有不断有意识地追求外在和内在的自由，才有可能实现精神的发展和完善，进而改善人的外在和内在生活。原文: Only if outward and inner freedom are constantly and consciously pursued is there a possibility of spiritual development and perfection and thus of improving man’s outward and inner life.* 统治世界的有三大力量：愚蠢、恐惧和贪婪。原文: Three great forces rule the world: stupidity, fear and greed.* 一切真正伟大和鼓舞人心的东西都是由能够自由劳动的个人创造的。原文: Everything that is really great and inspiring is created by the individual who can labor in freedom.* 到了一定年龄，阅读会使人的思想过多地偏离创造性的追求；一个人如果读得太多而用脑太少就会养成懒惰的思维习惯。原文: Reading, after a certain age, diverts the mind too much from its creative pursuits. Any man who reads too much and uses his own brain too little falls into lazy habits of thinking.* 真正有价值的是直觉，在探索的道路上智力无甚用处。原文:The only real valuable thing is intuition. The intellect has little to do on the road to discovery.* 我很少用语言思考；一个想法出现了，我可能试着用语言表达出来。原文: I very rarely think in words at all. A thought comes, and I may try to express it in words afterwards.* 创新不是由逻辑思维带来的，尽管最后的成果需要一个符合逻辑的结构。原文: Innovation is not the product of logical thought, even though the final product is tied to a logical structure.* 我们所面临的重大问题不能以我们制造它们时同样的思维水平去解决。原文: The significant problems we face cannot be solved at the same level of thinking we were at when we created them.* 我的和平主义不是基于任何智力理论，而是基于对一切形式的残忍和仇恨的深深反感。原文: My pacifism is not based on any intellectual theory but on a deep antipathy to every form of cruelty and hatred.* 在两周内，任何国家的绵羊般的群众都会被报纸煽动得如此愤怒，以至于人们准备穿上军装，为了少数利益方的肮脏目的而杀人或被杀。原文: In two weeks the sheeplike masses of any country can be worked up by the newspaper into such a state of excited fury that men are prepared to put on uniforms and kill and be killed, for the sake of the sordid ends of a few interested parties.* 武力总是吸引道德低下的人，而且我相信天才暴君的继任者总会是无赖，这是一条不变的规律。原文: Force always attracts men of low morality, and I believe it to be an invariable rule that tyrants of genius are succeeded by scoundrels.* 我们所创造的世界是我们的思维过程；不改变我们的思维，就无法改变世界。原文: The world as we have created it is a process of our thinking. It cannot be changed without changing our thinking.* 当我有一周的时间来解决一个看似不可能解决的问题时，我会用六天的时间来定义问题，然后解决方案就显而易见了。原文: When I have one week to solve a seemingly impossible problem, I spend six days defining the problem. Then, the solution becomes obvious.* 所有的宗教、艺术和科学都是同一棵树上的分支。原文: All religions, arts and sciences are branches of the same tree.* 伟大的精神总是遭到平庸者的激烈反对；平庸的头脑无法理解那些拒绝盲目屈从于传统偏见，而是选择勇敢而诚实地表达自己观点的人。原文: Great spirits have always encountered violent opposition from mediocre minds. The mediocre mind is incapable of understanding the man who refuses to bow blindly to conventional prejudices and chooses instead to express his opinions courageously and honestly.* 教师能传授给孩子的最有价值的东西不是知识和理解本身，而是对知识和理解的渴望，以及对智力价值的欣赏，无论是艺术的、科学的还是道德的。原文: The most valuable thing a teacher can impart to children is not knowledge and understanding per se but a longing for knowledge and understanding, and an appreciation for intellectual values, whether they be artistic, scientific, or moral.* 学生不是一个你要填满的容器，而是一支你要点燃的火炬。原文: Student is not a container you have to fill but a torch you have to light up.* 大多数教师都在浪费时间提问意图发现学生不知道的东西，而提问的真正艺术是发现学生知道或能够知道的东西。原文: Most teachers waste their time by asking questions that are intended to discover what a pupil does not know, whereas the true art of questioning is to discover what the pupil does know or is capable of knowing.* 整个科学不过是日常思考的提炼。原文: The whole of science is nothing more than a refinement of everyday thinking.* 把你的手放在滚烫的炉子上一分钟，就好像过了一小时；坐在一个漂亮姑娘身边一小时，就好像过了一分钟。这就是相对论。原文: 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.* 我想知道上帝的构思，其余的只是细枝末节。原文: I want to know God's thoughts; the rest are details.* 我断言，宇宙宗教体验是科学研究背后最强大、最高尚的推动力。原文: I assert that the cosmic religious experience is the strongest and the noblest driving force behind scientific research.* 我们对待事物的态度很大程度上受到我们小时候从环境中不知不觉吸收的观点和情绪的制约。我们很少反思，与传统的强大影响相比，我们有意识的思想对我们的行为和信念的影响是多么的小。原文: A large part of our attitude toward things is conditioned by opinions and emotions which we unconsciously absorb as children from our environment. We but rarely reflect how relatively small as compared with the powerful influence of tradition is the influence of our conscious thought upon our conduct and convictions.* 物体的质量就是它所含能量的度量。原文: The mass of a body is a measure of its energy content.* 人类与宇宙之间正在进行一场竞赛；人类试图制造更大、更好、更快、更可靠的机器，宇宙则试图制造更大、更好、更快的傻瓜；到目前为止，宇宙正在获胜。原文: There is a race between mankind and the universe. Mankind is trying to build bigger, better, faster, and more foolproof machines. The universe is trying to build bigger, better, and faster fools. So far the universe is winning.* 黑洞是上帝除以零的地方。原文: Black holes are where God divided by zero.* 所有科学的宏伟目标是从最少的假设或公理出发，通过逻辑推演涵盖最多的经验事实。原文: The grand aim of all science is to cover the greatest number of empirical facts by logical deduction from the smallest number of hypotheses or axioms.* 我认为只有大胆的猜测，而不是事实的积累，才能引领我们向前迈进。原文: I think that only daring speculation can lead us further and not accumulation of facts.* 物质就是能量‧‧‧‧‧‧能量就是光‧‧‧‧‧‧我们都是光之存有。原文: Matter is Energy ... Energy is Light ... We are all Light Beings.* 在我看来，由哲学洞察力创造的这种独立性，是区分纯粹的工匠或专家与真正的真理追求者的标志。原文: 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.* 上帝并不在乎我们的数学困难，他凭直觉将万物合而为一。原文: God does not care about our mathematical difficulties. He integrates empirically.* 科学是个美妙的东西，如果一个人不必靠它谋生。原文: Science is a wonderful thing if one does not have to earn one's living at it.* 公式对我更重要，因为政治只顾当前，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.* 我确信，正是这种不被理解的神秘感吸引着人们，它以神秘的光环和磁力给人们留下深刻的印象。原文: I am certain that it is the mystery of not understanding that attracts people; it impresses them with the aura and magnetism of mystery.* 没有宗教的科学是瘸子，没有科学的宗教是瞎子。原文: Science without religion is lame, religion without science is blind.* 几乎不能否认，所有理论的最高目标是使不可继续还原的基本要素尽可能简单且少，而不必放弃对单一经验数据的充分描述。原文: It can scarcely be denied that the supreme goal of all theory is to make the irreducible basic elements as simple and as few as possible without having to surrender the adequate representation of a single datum of experience.