爱因斯坦语录

数学定理越接近实际时，越不可靠；而越可靠的定理，越不切实际。

As far as the laws of mathematics refer to reality, they are not certain; and as far as they are certain, they do not refer to reality.
Albert Einstein (1879 - 1955)

科学是一件有趣的事，如果你不必依赖它养家糊口的话。（我还要养家糊口……所以我不走学术路线了）

Science is a wonderful thing if one does not have to earn one's living at it.
Albert Einstein (1879 - 1955)

常识就是指你在18岁以前累积起来的各种偏见。
Common sense is the collection of prejudices acquired by age eighteen.
Albert Einstein (1879 - 1955) （ATTRIBUTED） [Common Sense] [Prejudice]

我不知道第三次世界大战会用什么武器，但是我知道第四次世界大战时一定是用棍棒和石头在格斗。（暗指在第三次世界大战中人类就已经毁灭了）
I know not with what weapons World War III will be fought, but World War IV will be fought with sticks and stones.
Albert Einstein (1879 - 1955) [War]

最不能理解的事情就是，在这个世界上的一切事情就是可理解的。
The most incomprehensible thing about the world is that it is comprehensible.
Albert Einstein (1879 - 1955)

并不是任何事都被人们认为值得去做；然而当有了真正值得去做的事时，人们往往却不这么认为。
Not everything that can be counted counts, and not everything that counts can be counted.
Albert Einstein (1879 - 1955), (attributed）

当你站在一个宇宙的角度审视自己，内心总有一个声音在提醒自己：世界上还有更大的事值得担忧。
When you look at yourself from a universal standpoint, something inside always reminds or informs you that there are bigger and better things to worry about.
Albert Einstein (1879 - 1955), The World as I See It。

一定年龄之后，读书只会令你对创新性思维的追求分心：那些读书过多的人，往往自主思考过少。（我为自己现在很少读书找到了借口……）
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.
Albert Einstein (1879 - 1955) [Books]

做一个有价值的人，而不是一个成功的人。
Try not to become a man of success but rather to become a man of value.
Albert Einstein (1879 - 1955) [Success]

如果A意味着成功，A＝x×y×z，x代表工作，y代表玩，z代表少说话。（我最讨厌两种人：虚伪的人，和夸夸其谈的人。）
If A is success in life, then A equals x plus y plus z. Work is x; y is play; and z is keeping your mouth shut.
Albert Einstein (1879 - 1955), Observer, Jan. 15, 1950 [Success]

科学与宗教密不可分。
Science without religion is lame, religion without science is blind.
Albert Einstein (1879 - 1955),

科学，哲学与宗教合成了一出交响乐。
"Science, Philosophy and Religion: a Symposium", 1941 [Science] [Religion]

万有引力无法用来解释人们是如何坠入情网的。
Gravitation cannot be held responsible for people falling in love.

你永远无法从化学和物理学的角度解释清楚，一见钟情是如何产生的？
How on earth can you explain in terms of chemistry and physics so important a biological phenomenon as first love?

把你的手放在火炉上，一分钟像是一小时；与一个美女同坐，一小时像是一分钟。这就是相对论。
Put your hand on a stove for a minute and it seems like an hour. Sit with that special girl for an hour and it seems like a minute. That's relativity.
Albert Einstein (1879 - 1955)

上帝为了惩罚我对于所谓的“专家”的不屑，把我自己也变成了一个专家。（我们不得不承认，当今社会上一部分专家简直就是人类的耻辱）

To punish me for my contempt for authority, fate made me an authority myself.
Albert Einstein (1879 - 1955)

科学就是每天思考多一点。
The whole of science is nothing more than a refinement of everyday thinking.
Albert Einstein (1879 - 1955), Physics and Reality [1936]

如果我们知道我们整天在做什么的话，那就不叫“做研究”了。（我到现在还不知道自己每天究竟在做什么）
If we knew what it was we were doing, it would not be called research, would it?
Albert Einstein (1879 - 1955)

绝不要把学习看作是一种任务，而要把它当作一种令人嫉妒的机会，去学习，去了解精神领域上的美，以及其具有解放性的巨大影响力；这对于个人来说，是一件愉快的事，同时也对你今后将要从事的行业有利；
Never regard 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 joy and to the profit of the community to which your later work belongs.
Albert Einstein (1879 - 1955)

单独一个人类是“宇宙”这个整体的一部分，是有限的时空体；个人往往会处在“与整体分离”的错觉里，从某种意义上来讲，这种想法造成了我们的局限性——自身的监狱：限制了我们仅仅关注于个人的追求，仅仅与身边的少部分人接触；我们的目标就是要解放自我，开阔情感的圈子，拥抱所有一切活着的生物，以及自然之美。（吐槽：这不是碇源堂的人类补完计划的真正内容麽－－b）
A human being is part of a 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 us. Our task must be to free ourselves from this prison by widening our circles of compassion to embrace all living creatures and the whole of nature in its beauty.
Albert Einstein (1879 - 1955)

态度的虚弱造成性格的虚弱。（所以要有自信）
Weakness of attitude becomes weakness of character.
Albert Einstein (1879 - 1955)

支持我们追寻艺术和科学的动力就是：从无聊的令人窒息的日常生活中逃脱，从我们自身的不断变化的欲望的镣铐中逃脱；一个个性优秀的人渴望从个人生活中逃脱，从而融入到客观看法和思考的世界中去。
...one of the strongest motives that lead men to art and science is escape from everyday life with its painful crudity and hopeless dreariness, from the fetters of one's own ever-shifting desires. A finely tempered nature longs to escape from the personal life into the world of objective perception and thought.
Albert Einstein (1879 - 1955)

理论与可能性一样简单，但是不可能比其更简单。
Theories should be as simple as possible, but not simpler.
Albert Einstein (1879 - 1955)

科技就像拿在病人手中的斧头一样。（讽喻人类应用不当，科学是把双刃剑）
Technological progress is like an axe in the hands of a pathological criminal.
Albert Einstein (1879 - 1955)

科学的目的就是：使一切形而上学得出的结论，能够用最少的假说和公理来推导。 （精辟！）
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.
Albert Einstein (1879 - 1955)

理论的正确永远无法用足够的验证性实验来证明，然而理论的错误仅仅需要一个证伪性实验就够了。（做科学不容易啊）
No amount of experimentation can ever prove me right; a single experiment can prove me wrong.
Albert Einstein (1879 - 1955)

合作的第一原则需要互信，第二才是法院和警察。（这令我想起了如果道歉有用的话，还要警察干什么）
Every kind of peaceful cooperation among men is primarily based on mutual trust and only secondarily on institutions such as courts of justice and police.
Albert Einstein (1879 - 1955)

任何聪明的笨蛋都能把事情搞得更复杂；而这需要一点点机智，更多的是勇气，来反对。（这个世界上聪明的笨蛋太多了……）
Any intelligent fool can make things bigger and more complex... It takes a touch of genius - and a lot of courage to move in the opposite direction.
Albert Einstein

这个世界是危险的：并不是因为无恶不作的人太多，而是因为无所事事的人太多。 （想要改变世界，先从改变你自己开始）
The world is a dangerous place to live; not because of the people who are evil, but because of the people who don't do anything about it.
Albert Einstein

兴趣是比责任更好的老师。
Love is a better teacher than duty.
Albert Einstein

知识分子解决问题，而天才能够避免问题的产生。
Intellectuals solve problems, geniuses prevent them.
Albert Einstein

事业恋爱两不误的男人，一定没有给予恋爱足够的重视。（意译，很值得广大女青年警惕）
Any man who can drive safely while kissing a pretty girl is simply not giving the kiss the attention it deserves.
Albert Einstein

一个问题经常困扰着我：到底是我疯了呢还是其他人疯了？
A question that sometimes drives me hazy: am I or are the others crazy?
Albert Einstein

想象比逻辑重要：逻辑能够将你从A带到B，而想象能够带你去任何地方。 （脑筋急转弯：念完“北京大学”需要多少时间？）
Logic will get you from A to B. Imagination will take you everywhere.
Albert Einstein

为了全人类幸福而努力的生活才是有意义的生活。

Only a life lived for others is a life worthwhile.
Albert Einstein

任何享乐都是需要付出代价的，无论是肉体上的，精神上的，或者是长胖。（这句话其实我不是很理解……）
The devil has put a penalty on all things we enjoy in life. Either we suffer in health or we suffer in soul or we get fat.
Albert Einstein

并不是因为我聪明，而是因为我比别人更执著。（可惜这一法则在恋爱中无效）
It's not that I'm so smart, it's just that I stay with problems longer.
Albert Einstein

知识就像一个圆圈，圈里是你知道的，圈外是你不知道的，圈越大，与外界的接触面积也越大。（你知道的越多，越发现自己的无知。）
As our circle of knowledge expands, so does the circumference of darkness surrounding it.

上帝面前人人平等：同样聪明，也同样愚蠢。（人类是一种自以为是的动物）
Before God we are all equally wise— and equally foolish.

不要抱怨你在数学上碰到的难题，我敢打赌你碰到的难题绝对没有我的棘手。（不要抱怨你作为一个男人找不到女朋友生活多么不幸，我敢打赌你的生活绝对没有司马迁更不幸）

Do not worry about your difficulties in Mathematics. I can assure you mine are still greater.

教育就是，当一个人忘记了所有学校里所学的知识以后所剩下的东西。
Education is what remains after one has forgotten everything he learned in school.

我喜欢旅行，但是不喜欢到达。

（类比：下列哪一选项是正确的？

A.李敖说，有些旅游景点“值得看”，但不值得“特地跑去看”；

B.加菲猫说，我最讨厌星期一；）
I love to travel, but hate to arrive.

如果相对论被证明正确，那德国人会宣称我是德国人，法国人则会说我是属于世界的；如果被证明是错误的，那法国人会说我是德国人，德国人会说我是犹太人。（德国人和法国人都错了，真的，爱因斯坦其实是韩国人！）

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.

精神错乱：重复做着同一件事，却期待得出不同的结果。
Insanity: doing the same thing over and over again and expecting different results.

所谓真实就是一种幻觉，一种很顽固的幻觉。
Reality is merely an illusion, albeit a very persistent one.

上帝很狡猾，（幸运地是）他不坏。
Subtle is the Lord, but malicious He is not. (Raffiniert ist der Herrgott, aber boshaft ist Er nicht.)