There could be no fairer destiny for any physical theory than that it should point the way to a more comprehensive theory in which it lives on as a limiting case.

  • -- Albert Einstein 爱因斯坦

对任何物理理论来说,没有比这更公平的命运了:它应该为一种更全面的理论指明道路,在这种理论中,它作为一种极限情况而存在。

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We are face to face with our destiny and we must meet it with a high and resolute courage. For us is the life of action, of strenuous performance of duty; let us live in the harness, striving mightily; let us rather run the risk of wearing out than rusting out.

我们正面临着我们的命运,我们必须以崇高和坚定的勇气来迎接它。对我们来说,生命是行动的生命,是勤奋履行职责的生命;让我们生活在挽具里,奋力拼搏;让我们冒着磨损而不是生锈的危险吧。

As you say, the way string theory requires all these extra dimensions and this comes from certain consistency requirements about how string should behave and so on.

正如你所说,弦理论需要所有这些额外的维度这来自于弦应该如何表现的一致性要求等等。

In so far as such a theory is empirically correct it will also tell us what empirical facts it should be possible to observe in a given set of circumstances.

只要这种理论在经验上是正确的,它还将告诉我们,在给定的一组情况下,应该能够观察到哪些经验事实。

Nothing irritates me more than chronic laziness in others. Mind you, it's only mental sloth I object to. Physical sloth can be heavenly.

没有什么比别人长期的懒惰更让我恼火的了。请注意,我所反对的只是精神上的懒惰。身体上的懒惰可以是天堂。

I hate facts. I always say the chief end of man is to form general propositions - adding that no general proposition is worth a damn.

我讨厌的事实。我总是说,人的主要目的是形成普遍的命题——并补充说,没有一个普遍的命题是一文不值的。

No science is immune to the infection of politics and the corruption of power.

没有一门科学能幸免于政治的影响和权力的腐败。

We share a wonderful, I think, physical or geographical heritage.

我想,我们拥有共同的自然或地理遗产。

Destiny leads the willing but drags unwilling.

命运引导有意愿的人,却拖住不愿的人。