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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People often complain that music is too ambiguous, that what they should think when they hear it is so unclear, whereas everyone understands words. With me, it is exactly the opposite, and not only with regard to an entire speech but also with individual words.

人们经常抱怨音乐太模糊,当他们听到音乐时应该怎么想太模糊,而每个人都能听懂歌词。对我来说,情况恰恰相反,不仅是在整个演讲中,而且在每个词中都是如此。

A Swedish physicist can not discuss his work with fifty people unless he goes abroad. A Swedish economist can get opinions and instructions in his native language from thousands upon thousands of his fellow citizens.

一位瑞典物理学家除非出国,否则不能与五十个人讨论他的工作。一位瑞典经济学家可以从他成千上万的同胞那里得到用本国语言表述的意见和指示。

If you get a great wife who understands the demands of someone in athletics, I think that's important.

如果你有一个伟大的妻子,她理解运动员的要求,我认为这很重要。

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。

I must be very complex, judging by the number of days determined to define me.

我一定很复杂,从决定定义我的天数来判断。

They say the world has become too complex for simple answers. They are wrong.

他们说,世界已经变得太复杂,无法给出简单的答案。他们错了。

Physics is becoming too difficult for the physicists.

物理学对物理学家来说变得太难了。

I was always good at math and science and physics.

我一直擅长数学、科学和物理。