Physics is becoming so unbelievably complex that it is taking longer and longer to train a physicist. It is taking so long, in fact, to train a physicist to the place where he understands the nature of physical problems that he is already too old to solve them.

  • -- Eugene Wigner 尤金·维格纳

物理学变得如此复杂,以至于培养一个物理学家需要的时间越来越长。事实上,要把一个物理学家培养到能够理解物理问题本质的程度需要很长时间,以至于他已经老得无法解决这些问题了。

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A garden is a complex of aesthetic and plastic intentions; and the plant is, to a landscape artist, not only a plant - rare, unusual, ordinary or doomed to disappearance - but it is also a color, a shape, a volume or an arabesque in itself.

一个花园是一个审美和造型意图的综合体;对于景观艺术家来说,植物不仅是一种稀有的、不寻常的、普通的或注定要消失的植物,而且它本身也是一种颜色、一种形状、一个体量或一种阿拉伯风格。

There are relatively few experiments in atomic physics these days that don't involve the use of a laser.

目前在原子物理学中,相对较少的不涉及激光的实验。

Trinidad may seem complex, but to anyone who knows it, it is a simple, colonial, philistine society.

特立尼达可能看起来很复杂,但对任何了解它的人来说,它是一个简单、殖民、庸俗的社会。

My first degree came years before my second. I had wanted to be a physicist, but I flunked calculus.

我的第一个学位比第二个学位早了好几年。我本想成为一名物理学家,但我的微积分不及格。

The superior man understands what is right; the inferior man understands what will sell.

优越的人知道什么是正确的;下等人知道什么东西好卖。

I think that Yulia Tymoshenko should prepare to resign. She understands that well.

我认为季莫申科应该准备辞职。她很了解这一点。

Nuclear physics is interesting but it is unlikely to help society.

核物理很有趣,但它不太可能帮助社会。