原文:It's not that I'm so smart, it's just that I stay with problems longer.
21、不必努力去做一个成功者,尽力去成为一个有价值者。
原文:Try not to become a man of success, but rather try to become a man of value.
22、态度上的弱点会变成性格上的弱点。
原文:Weakness of attitude becomes weakness of character.
23、我喜欢旅行,但我不喜欢到达。
原文:I love to travel, but hate to arrive.
24、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.
25、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.
26、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.
27、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。
原文:Zwei Dinge sind unendlich: Das Universum und die menschliche Dummheit. Aber beim Universum bin ich mir nicht ganz sicher.