The scientist is not a person who gives the right answers, he is one who asks the right questions.

  • -- Claude Levi-Strauss 斯特劳斯

科学家不是一个给出正确答案的人,他是一个提出正确问题的人。

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I have arrived at the conviction that the neglect by economists to discuss seriously what is really the crucial problem of our time is due to a certain timidity about soiling their hands by going from purely scientific questions into value questions.

我已经确信,经济学家忽视认真讨论我们这个时代真正关键的问题,是因为他们在从纯粹的科学问题转向价值问题的过程中,存在着一定的畏惧感。

Many people believe that our lives end not when we die but when the very last person who knew us dies. Memory is part of it, yes, but I think it's much more than memory.

许多人认为,我们的生命不是在我们死的时候结束的,而是在认识我们的最后一个人死的时候结束的。记忆是其中的一部分,是的,但我认为它远远不止是记忆。

I had a million questions to ask God: but when I met Him, they all fled my mind; and it didn't seem to matter.

我有无数的问题要问上帝,但是当我遇见他的时候,这些问题都从我的脑海中消失了。这似乎无关紧要。

A great physicist is always a metaphysicist as well; he has a higher concept of his knowledge and his task.

伟大的物理学家总是形而上学者;他对自己的知识和任务有更高的认识。

The present is not an instant shared by all space, but an event, i.e. an instant at a place in space.

现在不是所有空间共享的瞬间,而是一个事件,即空间中某个地方的瞬间。

I feel that if a person has problems communicating the very least he can do is to shut up.

我觉得如果一个人在沟通上有问题,他至少可以闭嘴。