1、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。
原文:Imagination is more important than knowledge. For knowledge is limited, whereas imagination embraces the entire world, stimulating progress, giving birth to evolution.
2、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。(爱氏自言引述某前人的话)
原文:Education is what remains after one has forgotten everything he learned in school.
3、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
4、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。
原文:I think that only daring speculation can lead us further and not accumulation of facts.
5、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?
原文:If we knew what we were doing, it wouldn't be called research, would it?
6、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。
原文:It has become appallingly obvious that our technology has exceeded our humanity.
7、这个世界最不可理解的就是它竟然是可以理解的。
原文:The most incomprehensible thing about the world is that it is at all comprehensible.
8、所谓现实只不过是一个错觉,虽然这个错觉非常持久。
原文:Reality is merely an illusion, albeit a very persistent one.
9、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。
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.