A good head and a good heart are always a formidable combination. People learn to hate, and if they can learn to hate, they can be taught to love, for loves comes more naturally to the human heart than it's opposite. --------------Nelson Mandela Darkness cannot drive out darkness; only light can do that. Hate cannot drive out hate; only love can do that. ----- Martin Luther King Jr. I can calculate the motion of heavenly bodies, but not the madness of people. ------------Issac Newtion
比尔盖茨的名言真伪 网上搜来的,求证真伪。感谢您的指教! 版本一 成功之道 ——Bill Gates’ 11 rules 【内容提要】在比尔 · 盖茨的书里,他列出了 11 项学生在学校里没有学习到的事情。比尔 · 盖茨在书中谈到然你让你感觉良好、政治上的正确教导培养出来的不知现实为何物的年轻一代,这种教育只能使他们认为在真实世界中是失败者。 责任的承担是真正成长的开始 收纸 ,责任的承担是影响别人的开始,责任的承担是解决问题的开始,每一个人对责任的主动承担是团队最好的凝聚! In Bill Gates’ Book for high school and college graduates , there is a list of 11 thing they did not learn in school. In his book , Bill Gates talks about how feel-good 爱普生 , politically-correct teachings created a full generation of kids with no concept of reality and how this education set them up for failure in the real world. 在比尔 · 盖茨写给高中生和大学毕业生的书里,列出了 11 项学生在学校里没有学习到的事情。比尔 . 盖茨在书中谈到然你让你感觉良好、政治上的正确教导培养出来的不知现实为何物的年轻一代,这种教育只能使他们认为在真实世界中是失败者。 The 11 things are : 这十一项是: 1 、 Life is not fair , get used to it. 生活是不公平的,要去适应它。 2 、 The world won’t care about your self-esteem. The world will expect you to accomplish something before you feel good about yourself. 世界并不会在意你的自尊。在你自我感觉良好之前世界希望你先有所成就。 胶片 3 、 You will not make 40 thousand dollars a year right out of high school. You won’t be a vise president with a car phone 艾司科 , until you earn both. 高中毕业你不可能挣到 4 万美元的年薪。也不可能是一个拥有安装有电话的汽车的副总。这些都需要你通过自己努力去获得。 4 、 If you think your teacher is tough , wait till you get a boss. He doesn’t have tenure. 如果认为你的老师太严厉,那就等到你有老板的时候。老板可是没有任期的。 5 、 Flipping burgers is not beneath your dignity. Your grandparents had a different word for burger flipping ; they called it opportunity. 碎肉夹饼不会有失身份。你的祖辈对此有不同的理解:他们称之为机会。 6 、 If you mess up , it’s not your parents’ fault , so don’t whine about our mistakes 软包装 , learn from them. 如果陷入困境,那不是父母的错。不要抱怨自己的过失,要从中吸取教训。 7 、 Before you were born , your parents weren’t as boring as they are now. They got that way from paying your bills , cleaning your clothes and listening to you talk about how cool you are. So before you save the rain forest from the parasites of your parents’ generation 雅昌 , try “delousing” the closet in your own room. 电子监管码 在你出生之前,父母的并非如此乏味。他们变成今天的样子是因为需要为你付各类帐单、给你洗衣服,听你大谈你是如何的酷。如果你想驱除你们父母那一辈寄生虫来拯救雨林的话,就先去清除你自己房间壁橱里的虱子。 8 、 Your school may have done away with winners and losers , but life has not. In some school they have abolished failing grades ; they’ll give you as many time you want to get the right answer. This doesn’t bear the slightest resemblance to anything in real life. 你的学校也许已经不再区分优等生和劣等生 知识产权 ,但生活中仍会。有些学校已经废除不及格;如果你想找出正确答案,会给你很多次机会。真实生活里却完全不可能。 9 、 Life is not divided into semesters. You don’t get summers off and very few employers are interested in helping you find yourself. Do that on your own time. 生活不分学期。你没有暑假可以休息,很少有雇主乐于帮你发现自我。这些你自己在非工作时间去做吧。 10 、 Television is NOT real life. In real life people actually have to leave the coffee shop and go to jobs. 北人股份 电视不是现实生活。现实生活中人们不得不离开咖啡馆去工作。 11 、 Be nice to nerds. Chances are you’ll end up working for one. 善待卑微的人,有可能你到头来会为他工作。 版本二 一、社会充满不公平现象。你先不要想去改造它,只能先适应它。 ( 因为你管不了它 ) 二、世界不会在意你的自尊,人们要看的只是你的成就。在你没有成就以前,切勿过分强调自尊。 ( 因为你越强调自尊,越对你不利 ) 三、你只是中学毕业,通常不会成为 CEO ,直到你把 CEO 职位拿到手为止。 ( 直到此时,人们才不会介意你只是中学毕业 ) 四、当你陷入人为困境时,不要抱怨,你只能默默地吸取教训。 ( 你要悄悄地振作起来,重新奋起 ) 五、你要懂得:在没有你之前,你的父母并不像现在这样 “ 乏味 ” 。你应该想到,这是他们为了抚养你所付出的巨大代价。 ( 你永远要感恩和孝敬他们,才是硬道理 ) 六、在学校里,你考第几已不是那么重要,但进入社会却不然。不管你去到哪里,都要分等排名。 ( 社会、公司要排名次,是常见的事,要鼓起勇气竞争才对 ) 七、学校里有节假日,到公司打工则不然,你几乎不能休息,很少能轻松地过节假日。 ( 否则你职业生涯中一起跑就落后了,甚至会让你永远落后 ) 八、在学校,老师会帮助你学习,到公司却不会。如果你认为学校的老师要求你很严格,那是你还没有进入公司打工。因为,如果公司对你不严厉,你就要失业了。 ( 你必须清醒地认识到:公司比学校更要严格要求自己 ) 九、人们都喜欢看电视剧,但你不要看,那并不是你的生活。只要在公司工作,你是无暇看电视剧的。 ( 奉劝你不要看,否则你走上看电视连续剧之路,而且看得津津有味,那你将失去成功的资格 ) 十、永远不要在背后批评别人,尤其不能批评你的老板无知、刻薄和无能。 ( 因为这样的心态,会使你走上坎坷艰难的成长之路 )
爱因斯坦名言 来自: 爱因斯坦 - 维基语录,自由的名人名言录 http://zh.wikiquote.org/zh-hans/%E7%88%B1%E5%9B%A0%E6%96%AF%E5%9D%A6 Albert Einstein - Famous Quotes - Quoteopia! http://www.quoteopia.com/famous.php?quotesby=alberteinstein (1)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。 原文:Innovation is not the product of logical thought, even though the final product is tied to a logical structure. (2)There is no logical way to the discovery of these elemental laws. There is only the way of intuition, which is helped by a feeling for the order lying behind the appearance. (3)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. (4)提出一个问题往往比解决一个问题更为重要,因为解决一个问题也许只是一个数学上或实验上的技巧问题。而提出新的问题、新的可能性,从新的角度看旧问题,却需要创造性的想像力,而且标志着科学的真正进步。 The mere formulation of a problem is far more essential than its solution, which may be merely a matter of mathematical or experimental skills. To raise new questions, new possibilities, to regard old problems from a new angle requires creative imagination and marks real advances in science. (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)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。(4月2日名言) 原文:Zwei Dinge sind unendlich: Das Universum und die menschliche Dummheit. Aber beim Universum bin ich mir nicht ganz sicher. (7)如果一个想法在一开始不是荒谬的,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. (8)如果你不能简单说清楚,就是你没完全明白。 原文:If you can't explain it simply, you don't understand it well enough. (9)任何一個有智力的笨蛋都可以把事情搞得更大,更复杂,也更激烈。往相反的方向前進則需要天份,以及很大的勇氣。 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. Any 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. (10) 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. I am enough of an artist to draw freely upon my imagination. Imagination is more important than knowledge. Knowledge is limited. Imagination encircles the world.
记忆中的中国 我在北京拍摄到的大楼与大师 ----- 中国科学院总部办公大楼 vs 牛顿画像及名言 1. 大楼 上图是位于北京三里河的中国科学院总部办公大楼。这在北京算是一座很普通的办公大楼,但是门前悬挂着“中国科学院”和“中国科学院学部主席团”两块大牌子比较吸引眼球。启高拍摄于 2006 年 7 月 1 日下午 6 点 29 分。 2. 大师 上图是一张很普通的科普宣传画 ---- 牛顿画像及名言,曾张贴在中国科学院总部办公大楼内的一处很不显眼的墙壁上。我非常喜欢牛顿和他的名言。为了拍摄这张宣传画我特地去了两次中国科学院总部办公大楼!后来,我发现这个宣传画不见了。不知现在楼内是否还有这个宣传画? 启高拍摄于 2006 年 6 月 16 日上午 11 点 10 分。 3. 关于牛顿名言 牛顿 (1642-1727) 名言: “我不知道世上的人对我怎样评价。我却这样认为:我好像是在海滨上玩耍的孩子,时而拾到几块莹洁的石子,时而拾到几颗美丽的贝壳并为此欢欣。那浩瀚的真理的海洋仍展现在眼前。” 这则名言的英文为: “I do not know what I may appear to the world, but to myself I seem to have been only like a boy playing on the sea-shore, and diverting myself in now and then finding a smoother pebble or a prettier shell than ordinary, whilst the great ocean of truth lay all undiscovered before me.”] 其出处为: Memoirs of the Life, Writings and Discoveries of Sir Isaac Newton. Sir David Brewster, 2 vols. Thomas Constable Co., Edinburgh, 1855. 我以为,该名言的中文翻译需要斟酌,其原始出处需要进一步考证,也许原文为拉丁文。 孙启高 2013 年 6 月 7 日写于美东 -------------------- 相关阅读 : 世界上最有声望的学术职位之一 ---- “Lucasian Professor ofMathematics” http://blog.sciencenet.cn/blog-225931-357257.html 2010-8-29 11:16
现在人(包括自己),不论中西,大都不知人生为何,只能因为压力、为欲望而奔波、而竞争。当一个人不知道自己今生到底该做什么时,一般情况下,就会去追求别人、世俗认为该追求的东西,做一个“成功者”。 这种身心灵的状态,是更喜欢“打鸡血”式的名言的。这一点,我也不例外,也喜看现在各类“成功者”的语录。如: Robin Sharma: “If people are not laughing at your dreams at least once a week, you are aiming too low!”,而中文版则更鸡血:“不被嘲笑的梦想,是不值得去实现的”。不过我确实喜看。 这种鸡血打多了,会出现所谓“炯炯有神的死鱼眼 ”:炯炯有神是指奋斗力、战斗力、竞争力强,并挺“成功”;“死鱼眼”是指无生气,是指其实在内心深处,他/她是不认同自己做的事情的意义的(虽然在别人问起时,或是写自荐、面试等时候,讲得一套套的)。从小了讲,他们甚至不知道自己的工资、赚的钱最终是从谁的腰包里出的,而自己又是以什么作为交换的、是不是拿的心安理得;从大了讲,根本不知道这一生为何而生,莫名其妙、无可奈何。更可怜的是,大多数人的动力甚至只是:我不能比别人差(世俗、别人标准),我不服输,我不能让别人比我好,不能让别人看不起我,不能让别人觉得我过得很差,等等。以压力、欲望作为动力,也就是胡萝卜加大棒赶驴的方式。 这种 “炯炯有神的死鱼眼 ”现象在很多人身上出现,包括这个世界上最成功的人,甚至包括看似在追求自己理想的“理想主义者”们,商人、政治家、科学家、工程师、教授、老师、白领、学生、自由工作者、旅行家、流浪者、信徒、出家人等等。 不过,人总该休息的,身心灵都如此。在休息时,如果这种“打鸡血”的状态还持续的话,那大概就如电脑一直不关机一样吧。如果持续受各种欲望、压力的摧残的话, 虽然表面上仍很风光 ,将不可避免地 身心灵都 伤痕累累——明眼人一下子就能看出来,这点绝不夸张。 而为了中和这种状态,也是作为关机的触媒,读一些古人的名言,不失为一种好办法。 这里第三次选的,也还全是中文。 讀書者,要讀到手舞足蹈處,方不落筌蹄;善觀物者,要觀到心融神洽時,方不泥跡象。 ——菜根谭 舉而措之天下之民,謂之事業——《周易 繫辭》 計利當計天下利,求名應求萬世名——伊藤博文 為天地立心,為生民立命,為往聖繼絶學,為萬世開太平——張載 窮則獨善其身,達則兼善天下——孟子 夫英雄者,胸懷大志,腹有良謀;有包藏宇宙之機,吞吐天地之志者——曹操 言者多不顧行 談者未必真知 久者飛必高,開先者謝獨早,知此,可以免蹭蹬之憂,可以消躁急之念。——菜根谭 仗剑需交天下士,黄金多买百城书。 消磨天下英雄气,八股文章台阁书。 談山林之樂者,未必真得山林之樂:厭名利之談者,未必盡忘名利之情。 ——菜根谭
现在人(包括自己),不论中西,大都不知人生为何,只能因为压力、为欲望而奔波、而竞争。当一个人不知道自己今生到底该做什么时,一般情况下,就会去追求别人、世俗认为该追求的东西,做一个“成功者”。 这种身心灵的状态,是更喜欢“打鸡血”式的名言的。这一点,我也不例外,也喜看现在各类“成功者”的语录。如: Robin Sharma: “If people are not laughing at your dreams at least once a week, you are aiming too low!”,而中文版则更鸡血:“不被嘲笑的梦想,是不值得去实现的”。不过我确实喜看。 这种鸡血打多了,会出现所谓“炯炯有神的死鱼眼 ”:炯炯有神是指奋斗力、战斗力、竞争力强,并挺“成功”;“死鱼眼”是指无生气,是指其实在内心深处,他/她是不认同自己做的事情的意义的(虽然在别人问起时,或是写自荐、面试等时候,讲得一套套的)。从小了讲,他们甚至不知道自己的工资、赚的钱最终是从谁的腰包里出的,而自己又是以什么作为交换的、是不是拿的心安理得;从大了讲,根本不知道这一生为何而生,莫名其妙、无可奈何。更可怜的是,大多数人的动力甚至只是:我不能比别人差(世俗、别人标准),我不服输,我不能让别人比我好,不能让别人看不起我,不能让别人觉得我过得很差,等等。以压力、欲望作为动力,也就是胡萝卜加大棒赶驴的方式。 这种 “炯炯有神的死鱼眼 ”现象在很多人身上出现,包括这个世界上最成功的人,甚至包括看似在追求自己理想的“理想主义者”们,商人、政治家、科学家、工程师、教授、老师、白领、学生、自由工作者、旅行家、流浪者、信徒、出家人等等。 不过,人总该休息的,身心灵都如此。在休息时,如果这种“打鸡血”的状态还持续的话,那大概就如电脑一直不关机一样吧。如果持续受各种欲望、压力的摧残的话, 虽然表面上仍很风光 ,将不可避免地 身心灵都 伤痕累累——明眼人一下子就能看出来,这点绝不夸张。 而为了中和这种状态,也是作为关机的触媒,读一些古人的名言,不失为一种好办法。 这里第二次选的,也全是中文。 居軒冕之中,不可無山林的氣味:處林泉之下,須要懷廊廟的經綸。 ——菜根谭 天下事误于奸佞者,十之有三四,误于不通世故之君子者,十有七八。——清 刘鹗《老残游记》 来说是非者,便是是非人。 吉凶祸福有来由,但要深知不要忧。只见火光烧润屋,不闻风浪覆虚舟。名为公器无多取,利是身灾合少求。虽异匏瓜谁不食?大都食足早宜休。——唐 白居易 有人辞官归故里,有人漏夜赶科场。——儒林外史 寧為小人所忌毀,毋為小人所媚悅;寧為君子所責備,毋為君子所包容。——菜根谭
现在人(包括自己),不论中西,大都不知人生为何,只能因为压力、为欲望而奔波、而竞争。当一个人不知道自己今生到底该做什么时,一般情况下,就会去追求别人、世俗认为该追求的东西,做一个“成功者”。 这种身心灵的状态,是更喜欢“打鸡血”式的名言的。这一点,我也不例外,也喜看现在各类“成功者”的语录。如: Robin Sharma: “If people are not laughing at your dreams at least once a week, you are aiming too low!”,而中文版则更鸡血:“不被嘲笑的梦想,是不值得去实现的”。不过我确实喜看。 这种鸡血打多了,会出现所谓“炯炯有神的死鱼眼 ”:炯炯有神是指奋斗力、战斗力、竞争力强,并挺“成功”;“死鱼眼”是指无生气,是指其实在内心深处,他/她是不认同自己做的事情的意义的。从大了讲,根本不知道这一生为何而生,莫名其妙、无可奈何。更可怜的是,大多数人的动力甚至只是:我不能比别人差(世俗、别人标准),我不服输,我不能让别人比我好,不能让别人看不起我,不能让别人觉得我过得很差,等等。以压力、欲望作为动力,也就是胡萝卜加大棒赶驴的方式。 这种 “炯炯有神的死鱼眼 ”现象在很多人身上出现,包括这个世界上最成功的人,甚至包括看似在追求自己理想的“理想主义者”们,商人、政治家、科学家、工程师、教授、老师、白领、学生、自由工作者、旅行家、流浪者、信徒、出家人等等。 不过,人总该休息的,身心灵都如此。在休息时,如果这种“打鸡血”的状态还持续的话,那大概就如电脑一直不关机一样吧。如果持续受各种欲望、压力的摧残的话, 虽然表面上仍很风光 ,将不可避免地 身心灵都 伤痕累累——明眼人一下子就能看出来,这点绝不夸张。 而为了中和这种状态,也是作为关机的触媒,读一些古人的名言,不失为一种好办法。 这里第一次选的,全是中文。 人生到处何所似?应似飞鸿踏雪泥。 泥上偶然留指爪,鸿飞那复计东西—— 苏轼 和子由渑池怀旧 仗义每从屠狗辈,负心多是读书人——曹學栓 万事谁能知究竟,人生最怕是流言 能受天磨真好汉,不遭人忌是庸才——左宗棠 唯大英雄能本色,是真名士自风流——菜根谭 独立高峰望八都,黑云散后月还孤。茫茫宇宙人无数,几个男儿是丈夫?——吕洞宾 病后始知身是苦,健时多半为人忙——真歇清了禅师 龙衔海珠,游鱼不顾——夹山 涉世淺,點染亦淺;歷事深,機械亦深。故君子與其練達,不若樸魯;與其曲謹,不若疏狂——菜根谭 尘土十分归举子,乾坤大半属偷儿——毗陵登高
一个国外网站收集的,感觉很不错。内容稍多,我挑选了些,就不翻译了。大家看看就当学英语了。 主要都是关于想象力,好奇心,知识等精辟言论,还有爱情,人生等,广为传诵!....... The most beautiful experience we can have is the mysterious. It is the fundamental emotion which stands at the cradle of true art and true science. Whoever does not know it and can no longer wonder, no longer marvel, is as good as dead, and his eyes are dimmed. --The World As I See It, originally published in FORUM AND CENTURY, 1931. Try to become not a man of success, but try rather to become a man of value . -- Life magazine. May 2, 1955. Small is the number that see with their own eyes and feel with their own hearts. --Albert Einstein. I'm enough of an artist to draw freely on my imagination. Imagination is more important than knowledge. Knowledge is limited; imagination encircles the world . --Quoted in interview by G.S. Viereck, October 26, 1929. Reprinted in Glimpses of the Great (1930). The more success the quantum theory has, the sillier it looks --from a letter to Heinrich Zangger, May 20, 1912. AEA 39-655. A man must learn to understand the motives of human beings, their illusions, and their sufferings . --from an interview in the New York Times , September 1952. Curiosity is a delicate little plant which, aside from stimulation, stands mainly in need of freedom -- Autobiographical Notes . 1949. Whoever undertakes to set himself up as a judge in the field of Truth and Knowledge is shipwrecked by the laughter of the gods. --contribution to a publication commemorating the eightieth birthday of German rabbi and theologian Leo Baeck, 1953. I believe in intuitions and inspirations. I sometimes feel that I am right. I do not know if I am. --G.S. Viereck interview, October 26, 1929, reprinted in Glimpses of the Great (1930). A happy man is too satisfied with the present to dwell too much on the future. --CPAE, Vol 1., Doc 22, 1896. The important thing is not to stop questioning; curiosity has its own reason for existing . One cannot help but be in awe when contemplating the mysteries of eternity, of life, of the marvelous structure of reality. It is enough if one tries merely to comprehend a little of the mystery every day. The important thing is not to stop questioning; never lose a holy curiosity. --from statement to William Miller, as quoted in LIFE magazine (2 May 1955). The most important endeavor is the striving for morality in our actions. Our inner balance and even our very existence depend on it. Only morality in our actions can give beauty and dignity for life -- Einstein, a Portrait , p. 102. The monotony of a quiet life stimulates the creative mind --Speech Civilization and Science, at Royal Albert Hall, London, 1933. 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. --letter to Morris Raphael Cohen, professor emeritus of philosophy at the College of the City of New York, defending the controversial appointment of Bertrand Russell to a teaching position, March 19, 1940. What can the schools do to defend democracy ? Should they preach a specific political doctrine? I believe they should not. If they are able to teach young people to have a critical mind and a socially oriented attitude, they will have done all that is necessary. --message to the New Jersey Education Association, Atlantic City, 1939. It would be better if you begin to teach others only after you yourself have learned something. --quote from Einstein Archive 25-044, 1928. Bear in mind that the wonderful things you learn in your schools are the work of many generations, produced by enthusiastic effort and infinite labor in every country of the world. All this is put into your hands as your inheritance in order that you may receive it, honor it, add to it, and one day faithfully hand it to your children. Thus do we mortals achieve immortality in the permanent things which we create in common. --address to a group of children, 1934. I live in that solitude which is painful in youth, but delicious in the years of maturity --quote from Out of My Later Years, p. 13. I am content in my later years. I have kept my good humor and take neither myself nor the next person seriously. --quote from Einstein Archive 60-587, 1950. is not an end if we can live on in our children and the younger generation. For they are us; our bodies are only wilted leaves on the tree of life. --letter to Dutch physicist Heike Kamerlingh-Onne's widow, February 25, 1926; Einstein Archive 14-389. It is not so very important for a person to learn facts. For that he does not really need a college. He can learn them from books. 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 something that cannot be learned from textbooks. --1921, on Thomas Edison's opinion that a college education is useless; quoted in Frank, Einstein: His Life and Times , p. 185. Science will stagnate if it is made to serve practical goals. --Quoted in Nathan and Norden, Einstein on Peace , p. 402. After a certain high level of technical skill is achieved, science and art tend to coalesce in esthetics, plasticity, and form. The greatest scientists are always artists as well. --Remark made in 1923; recalled by Archibald Henderson, Durham Morning Herald , August 21, 1955; Einstein Archive 33-257. I have not eaten enough of the tree of knowledge, though in my profession I am obligated to feed on it regularly. --Albert Einstein The most precious things in life are not those you get for money . -- Ladies Home Journal . December 1946. Good acts are like good poems. One may easily get their drift, but they are not rationally understood. --quote to Maurice Solovine, April 9, 1947. One must shy away from questionable undertakings, even when they bear a high-sounding name. - -quote to Maurice Solovine, spring 1923. It is not so important where one settles down. The best thing is to follow your instincts without too much reflection. --quote to Max Born, March 3, 1920. I believe that a simple and unassuming life is good for everybody, physically and mentally. - -quote from The World as I See It (1930), reprinted in Ideas and Opinions , 8. Mysticism is in fact the only criticism people cannot level against my theory. - -quote from R.W. Clark., Einstein The Life and Times 268. ...The ideals which have guided my way, and time after time have given me the energy to face life, have been kindness, beauty, and truth. - -quote from The World as I See It (1930). Reprinted in Ideas and Opinions, 9. All of science is nothing more than the refinement of everyday thinking . - -quote from Physics and Reality (1936), reprinted in Ideas and Opinions, 290. God gave me the stubbornness of a mule and a fairly keen scent. - -quote from G.J. Whitrow, Einstein: The Man and His Achievement, 91. When a man sits with a pretty girl for an hour, it seems like a minute. But let him sit on a hot stove for a minute - and it's longer than any hour. That's relativity . - -quote from Journal of Exothermic Science and Technology (JEST, Vol. 1, No. 9; 1938). I have remained a simple fellow who asks nothing of the world; only my youth is gone - the enchanting youth that forever walks on air. - -quote to Anna Meyer-Schmid, May 12, 1909. A scientist is a mimosa when he himself has made a mistake, and a roaring lion when he discovers a mistake of others . - -quote from Ehlers, Liebes Hertz!, 45. The true value of a human being is determined primarily by how he has attained liberation from the self. - -quote from Einstein Archive 60-492, 1932; published in Mein Weltbild . A human being is a part of the whole, called by us the Universe, a part limited in time and space. He experiences himself, his thoughts and feelings as something separated from the rest, a kind of optical delusion of his consciousness. This delusion is a kind of prison for us, restricting us to our personal desires and to affection for a few persons nearest to us. Our task must be to free ourselves from this prison by widening our circle of compassion to embrace all living creatures and the whole of nature in its beauty. --quoted in H. Eves Mathematical Circles Adieu (Boston 1977). The life of the individual has meaning only insofar as it aids in making the life of every living thing nobler and more beautiful... --quoted in Ehlers, Liebes Hertz!, 162. One should not pursue goals that are easily achieved. One must develop an instinct for what one can just barely achieve through one's greatest efforts. --quote to Walter Daellenbach, May 31, 1915. I have little patience with scientists who take a board of wood, look for its thinnest part, and drill a great number of holes where drilling is easy. --Albert Einstein (quoted by Philipp Frank in Einstein's Philosophy of Science, Reviews of Modern Physics, Vol 21, No. 3 July 1949. Only a life lived for others is a life worthwhile. --quote to The New York Times , June 20, 1932. Falling in love is not at all the most stupid thing that people do-but gravitation cannot be held responsible for it . --quote to Fred Wall, 1933. Work is the only thing that gives substance to life. --quote to son Hans Albert, January 4, 1937. Look deep, deep into nature, and then you will understand everything better. --To Margot Einstein, after his sister's Maja's death, 1951; quote by Hanna Loewy in AE Television Einstein Biography, VPI International, 1991. and knowledge is one of the finest attributes of man - though often it is most loudly voiced by those who strive for it the least. --quote from The Goal of Human Existence, April 11, 1943. I am also convinced that one gains the purest joy from spirited things only when they are not tied in with earning one's livelihood. --quote to L. Manners, March 19, 1954. Why is it that nobody understands me, yet everybody likes me. --quote from New York Times , March 12, 1944 It is abhorrent to me when a fine intelligence is paired with an unsavory character. --quote to Jacob Laub, May 19, 1909 True art is characterized by an irresistible urge in the creative artist. --quote to Ernst Bloch, November 15, 1950 I have firmly decided to bite the dust with a minimum of medical assistance when my time comes, and up to then to sin to my wicked heart's content. --Letter to Elsa Einstein, August 11, 1913; CPAE, Vol. 5, Doc. 466 Our death is not an end if we can live on in our children and the younger generation. For they are us; our bodies are only wilted leaves on the tree of life. --Letter to Dutch physicist Heike Kamerlingh-Onne's widow, February 25, 1926; Strange is our situation here on earth. Each of us comes for a short visit, not knowing why, yet sometimes seeming to divine a purpose. --quote from My Credo, 1932. If you want to live a happy life, tie it to a goal, not to people or things. --quote by Ernst Straus, in French, Einstein: A Centenary Volume , p. 32. Music does not influence research work, but both are nourished by the same sort of longing, and they complement each other in the release they offer. --letter to Paul Plaut, October 23, 1928; Einstein Archive 28-065; quoted in Dukas and Hoffmann, Albert Einstein, the Human Side , p. 78. Never regard your study as a duty, but as the enviable opportunity to learn to know the liberating influence of beauty in the realm of the spirit for your own personal job and to the profit of the community to which your later work belongs. --In the Princeton freshman publication The Dink , 1933; quoted in Don Oberdorfer, Princeton: The First 250 Years (Princeton University Press, 1955), p. 127. Fear or stupidity has always been the basis of most human actions . --Letter to E. Mulder, April 1954; Einstein Archive 60-609. Children don't heed the life experiences of their parents, and nations ignore history. Bad lessons always have to be learned anew. --Aphorism, October 12, 1923; Einstein Archive 36-589. Science will stagnate if it is made to serve practical goals. --Quoted in Nathan and Norden, Einstein on Peace , p.402. In one's youth every person and every event appear to be unique. With age one becomes much more aware that similar events recur. Later on, one is less often delighted or surprised, but also less disappointed than in earlier years. --Letter to Queen Elizabeth of Belgium, January 3, 1954; Einstein Archive 32-408. Wisdom is not a product of schooling but of the life-long attempt to acquire it . --Letter to an admirer, March 22, 1954; quoted in Dukas and Hoffmann, Albert Einstein, the Human Side , p.44. Science is a wonderful thing if one does not have to earn one's living at it. One should earn one's living by work of which one is sure one is capable. Only when we do not have to be accountable to anybody can we find joy in scientific endeavor. --Letter to an admirer, March 24, 1951; quoted in Dukas and Hoffmann, Albert Einstein, the Human Side , p.57. It is true that the grasping of truth is not possible without empirical basis. However, the deeper we penetrate and the more extensive and embracing our theories become the less empirical knowledge is needed to determine those theories. --Einstein to T. McCormack, December 9, 1952, AEA 36-549. As for , I know from my own painful searching, with its many blind alleys, how hard it is to take a reliable step, be it ever so small, towards the understanding of that which is truly significant. --Letter to an admirer, February 13, 1934; quoted in Dukas and Hoffmann, Albert Einstein, the Human Side , p.18. The scientific theorist is not to be envied. For Nature, or more precisely experiment, is an exorable and not very friendly judge of his work. It never says yes to a theory. In the most favorable cases it says Maybe, and in the great majority of cases simply No. If an experiment agrees with a theory it means for the latter Maybe, and if it does not agree it means No. Probably every theory will some day experience its No - most theories, soon after conception. --Entry into memory book for Professor Kammerling-Onnes, November 11, 1922; quoted in Dukas and Hoffmann, Albert Einstein, the Human Side , p.18. There comes a time when the mind takes a higher plane of knowledge but can never prove how it got there. All great discoveries have involved such a leap. A society's competitive advantage will come not from how well its schools teach the multiplication and periodic table, but from how well they stimulate imagination and creativity. --Einstein to Vivienne Anderson, May 12, 1953, AEA 60-716. It is important to foster individuality for only the individual can produce the new ideas. --Einstein message for Ben Scheman dinner, March 1952, AEA 28-931. The value of a college education is not the learning of many facts but the training of the mind to think . --New York Times, May 18, 1921; Frank 1947, 185; Brian 1966, 129, Illy, 25-32. Frank, P. 1947. Einstein: A Centenary Volume . Cambridge, Mass.; Harvard University Press.; Brian, D. 1996. Einstein: A Life . Hoboken, N.J.: Wiley.; Illy, J., ed. 2005, February. Einstein Due Today. Manuscript. (Courtesy of the Einstein Papers Project, Pasadena.) A new idea comes suddenly and in a rather intuitive way, but intuition is nothing but the outcome of earlier intellectual experience. --Einstein to Dr. H.L. Gordon, May 3, 1949, AEA 58-217. But nature did not deem it her business to make the discovery of her laws easy for us. --Einstein to Erwin Freundlich, September 1, 1911. One of the strongest motives that leads men to art and science is escape from everyday life with its painful crudity and hopeless dreariness. Such men make this cosmos and its construction the pivot of their emotional life, in order to find the peace and security which they cannot find in the narrow whirlpool of personal experience. --Einstein, Principles of Research, 1918, in Einstein Albert, Ideas and Opinions , New York: Random House, 224. With fame I become more and more stupid, which of course is a very common phenomenon. --Einstein to Heinrich Zangger, December 24, 1919. Belief in an external world independent of the perceiving subject is the basis of all natural science. --Einstein, Maxwell's Influence on the Evolution of the Idea of Physical Reality, 1931, in Einstein, Albert, Ideas and Opinions , New York: Random House, 266. It is open to every man to choose the direction of his striving and every man may take comfort from the fine saying that is more precious than its possession. --William Laurence, Einstein Baffled by Cosmos Riddle, New York Times , May 16, 1940. Look into nature, and then you will understand it better . --Einstein to Lina Kocherthaler, July 27, 1951, AEA 38-303; Sayen, Jamie, 1985, Einstein in America: The Scientist's Conscience in the Age of Hitler and Hiroshima. New York: Crown, 231. The eternal mystery of the world is its comprehensibility...The fact that it is comprehensible is a miracle. --Einstein, Physics and Reality, Journal of the Franklin Institute (Mar. 1936), in Einstein, 1954, Ideas and Opinions . New York: Random House, 292. I have no special talents. I am only passionately curious . --Einstein to Carl Seelig, March 11, 1952, AEA 39-013. One must divide one's time between politics and equations. But our equations are much more important to me, because politics is for the present, while our equations are for eternity. --Einstein, quoted by Ernst Straus in Seelig, Helle Zeit, dunkle Zeit, 71. I think we have to safeguard ourselves against people who are a menace to others, quite apart from what may have motivated their deeds. --Einstein to Otto Juliusburger, April 11, 1946, AEA 38-228. I have never looked upon ease and happiness as ends in themselves--such an ethical basis I call the ideal of a pigsty...The ideals which have guided my way, and time after time have given me the energy to face life, have been Kindness, Beauty, and Truth. --Einstein, from The World as I See It (1930). I do not like to state an opinion on a matter unless I know the precise facts. --Einstein, quoted in an interview, New York Times, August 12, 1945. It is not so important where one settles down. The best thing is to follow your instincts without too much reflection. --Einstein to Max Born, March 3, 1920. AEA 8-146.
过罗马时功课不充分,很多东西都是看过以后才 发现 它们的故事。回家补课,浏览了一些古罗马的东西, 顺便抄几句凯撒大帝的名言,它们至今还回响在罗马的天空……【以下材料主要根据 Suetonius, Lives of the Caesars , 中译本即 《罗马十二帝王传》,商务印书馆】 ◎ 刚到高卢时,恺撒大帝 Julius 说,他宁愿做小村子里的老大,也不做罗马的老二( he had rather be first in a village than second at Rome ) —— 这是培根在《学术的进展》里引用的,与 Plutark 在《名人传》( Greek and Roman Lives )里的说法略有不同。 在打败 Pharnaces ( Pontus 国王)后, Julius 说了一句名言: Veni, vidi, vici. 我来了,看到了,征服了 。( I came, I saw, I conquered . ) ◎ 奥古斯都( Augustus )大帝( 27BC-14 )重建罗马城,理直气壮地说, I inherited it brick and left it marble . (我得到的是砖砌的,留下的是大理石的。) ◎ Gaius Caligula ( 37-41 )很残忍, 29 时 岁就被卫士乱刀杀死。他的名言也证明了他的残暴: Utinam populus Romanus unam cervicem haberet ! (“ 但愿罗马人只长了一个脖子” —— 他甚至对情人也说,“ 多美的脖子呀,但只要我一声令下,它就要搬家。” ) ◎ 尼禄( Lucius Domitius Ahenobarbus , 54-68 )是著名的暴君,也是末代凯撒。他最后选择了自杀,先为自己挖了一个坑,然后说了一句很可爱的话: Qualis artifex pereo! 多了不起的一个艺术家就要死了 !( “ What an artist dies with me ! ” ) 梵蒂冈博物馆里的奥古斯都雕塑《第一门的奥古都斯》( Augustus of Prima Porta )
三八节献礼:几则关于女性的英语谚语或名言 武夷山 辑译 Sure God created man before woman. But then you always make a rough draft before the final masterpiece. ~Author Unknown 上帝确实是先造的男人后造的女人。不过,一般在完成最终杰作之前,总要先画个粗糙的草图。 ――无名氏 The average woman would rather have beauty than brains, because the average man can see better than he can think. ~Author Unknown 一般的女性宁愿拥有美貌而不是拥有智慧,这是因为一般的男性能看得清楚,但想不明白。 ――无名氏 A woman can say more in a sigh than a man can say in a sermon. ~Arnold Haultain 女人的一声叹息,也许比男人的长篇说教更有内涵。 ―― Arnold Haultain ( 1857 - 1941 ,英国作家) Whatever women do they must do twice as well as men to be thought half as good. Luckily, this is not difficult. ~Charlotte Whitton 女人无论做什么,要做到比男人做得好一倍,男人才觉得她们只及自己做得一半好。所幸的是,女人做到这些并非难事。 ―― Charlotte Whitton ( 1896 - 1975 ,加拿大女权主义者,曾任渥太华市长) The two women exchanged the kind of glance women use when no knife is handy. ~Ellery Queen 没有刀子在手边的时候,两个女人可用目光交锋。 ―― Ellery Queen (美国两位男作家创作侦探小说时用的笔名) Curve: The loveliest distance between two points. ~Mae West 曲线:两点之间最风情的距离。 ―― Mae West ( 1893 - 1980 ,美国著名性感女演员) Can you imagine a world without men? No crime and lots of happy fat women. ~Nicole Hollander 您能想象没有男人的世界会是啥样吗?没有犯罪,但是有一大帮嘻嘻哈哈的肥婆。 ―― Nicole Hollander ( 1939 年生,当代著名女漫画家) Women get the last word in every argument. Anything a man says after that is the beginning of a new argument. ~Author Unknown 女人是任何争论的最终赢家。哪个男人在争论终了后再多说一句话,那便是又一场争论的开端。 ――无名氏 A man's face is his autobiography. A woman's face is her work of fiction. ~Oscar Wilde 男人的脸是他写的自传,女人的脸是她写的小说。 ――大文豪王尔德 博主:在这个特殊的日子里,女性朋友若看了以上内容后笑了,是我的荣耀;若看了以上内容后怒了,我无路可逃。
曹操同志有句名言:设使国家无有孤,不知当几人称帝,几人称王(《让县自明本志令》)。 虽然曹操同志已经去世1790年,但他的光辉思想却能飘洋过海,在异国他乡开花结果,真是“历千万祀,与天壤而同久,共三光而永光”。光辉思想的重要成果之一就是埃及那位领导同志的名言: If I resign today there will be chaos(如果我今天辞职,就会天下大乱)( http://abcnews.go.com/International/egypt-abc-news-christiane-amanpour-exclusive-interview-president/story?id=12833673page=2 ).
It is by education I learn to do by choice,what other men do by constraint of fear. -----Aristotle (384-322 BC) ...inscribe the characters of piety andhumanity. Ye schools, have therefore well-skilled sculptors, to model man, and remodel him as a progressive revelation of the image of God. -----Alsted (1588-1638) From infancy children are to be trained in godliness, always according to their capacity and by mild means ...united with the elements of all the sciences might renew the kingdom of God upon the earth. ... present to the child good examples of temperance, neatness, cleanliness,courtesy, and honesty. -----Comenius (1592-1671) ... virtue is harder to be got than knowledge of the world. essentials in education ... are 1.virtue, 2. wisdom, 3. breeding, 4.learning. vigor of the body, knowledge, wisdom. -----John LOCKE (1632-1704) The aim is indeed to produce a Roman wise man, one who mingles in politicalaction, as well as in the discussions ofthe schools. ... should learn what is good from all. ... it is not mere acquisition of facts thatis important, but the habit of logicalreasoning. -----Johann Friedrich HERBART (1776-1841) It is essential that the student acquire an understanding of and a lively feeling for values. He must acquire a vivid sense of the beautiful and of the morally good. Otherwise he with his specialized knowledge more closely resembles a well-trained dog. -----Albert EINSTEIN (1879-1955) There are obviously two educations.One teach us how to make a living and the other how to live. -----James Truslow ADAMS(1878-1949) The whole object of education is, or should be, to develop the mind. The mind should be a thing that works. It should be able to pass judgment on events as the arise, make decisions. ------Sherwood ANDERSON (1876-1941) It depends on education to open the gates which leads to virtue or to vice, to happiness or to misery. -----Jane PORTER (1776-1850) * Credit to Jacques: http://www.sois.uwm.edu/jacques/papers/fit/pre.pdf (本人尚未核对,若发现差误,不吝指明为盼。)
没有什么比习惯的力量更强大。 Nothing is more powerful than habit. 奥维德(Ovid),古罗马著名诗人,长篇叙事诗《变形记》的作者 习惯的力量如此巨大,这恐怕早已是众所周知的事情了。 It is notorious how powerful is the force of hatit. 查尔斯达尔文,英国生物学家,《物种起源》的作者 如果你希望出类拔萃,也希望生活方式与众不同,那么,你必须明白一点是你的习惯决定着你的未来。 If you want to distance yourself from the masses and enjoy a unique lifestyle, understand thisyour habits will determine your future. 杰克坎菲尔德(Jack Canfield),全球畅销书《心灵鸡汤》的作者 懒惰人哪,你要睡到几时呢?你何时睡醒呢?再睡片刻,打盹片刻,抱着手躺卧片刻,你的贫穷就必如强盗速来,你的匮乏仿佛拿兵器的人来到。 How long will you lie there you sluggard?When will you get up from your sleep? A little sleep, a little slumber, a little folding of the hands to restand poverty will come on you like a bandit and scarcity like an armed man. 《箴言集》6:9-11
科研困倦之余,偶尔浏览网页,看到哈佛图书馆馆训 ,如醍醐灌顶,遂推荐给大家以共勉。 1 .现在睡觉的话会做梦,而现在学习的话会让梦实现 This moment will nap, you will have a dream; But this moment study, you will interpret a dream. 2 .我无所事事地度过的今天,是昨天死去的人们所奢望的明天 I leave uncultivated today, was precisely yesterday perishes tomorrow which person of the body implored. 3 .觉得已经晚了,恰恰是最早的时候 Thought is already is late, exactly is the earliest time. 4 .不要把今天的事拖到明天 Not matter of the today will drag tomorrow. 5 .学习的痛苦是一时的,而没有学习的痛苦是一辈子的 Time the study pain is temporary, has not learned the pain is life-long. 6 .学习不是人生的全部,但连学习都征服不了你还能做什么? The study certainly is not the life complete. But, since continually life part of-studies also is unable to conquer, what but also can make? 7 .学习不是因为缺少时间,而是缺少努力 Studies this matter, lacks the time, but is lacks diligently. 8 .所有人的成功都不是偶然的 Nobody can casually succeed, it comes from the thorough self-control and the will. 9. 请享受无法避免的痛苦! Please enjoy the pain which is unable to avoid. 10 .早起的鸟儿有虫吃 Only has compared to the others early, diligently, can feel the successful taste. 11 .成功并不属于每个人 Nobody can casually succeed . 12. 你的教育程度就是你以后的收入程度 The education level represents the income. 13. 像狗一样的去学,像绅士一样的去玩儿 The dog equally study, the gentleman equally plays. 14. 今天流下的口水将变成明天流下的泪水 Now drips the saliva, will become tomorrow the tear. 15. 今天不想走,那明天就要跑了 Today does not walk, will have to run tomorrow.