愛因斯坦的經典名言

1、想像力比知識更重要。因為知識是有限的，而想像力是無限,它包含了一切,推動着進步,是人類進化的源泉。

原文：Imagination is more important than knowledge. For knowledge is limited, whereas imagination embraces the entire world, stimulating progress, giving birth to evolution.

2、教育就是當一個人把在學校所學全部忘光之後剩下的東西。(愛氏自言引述某前人的話)

原文：Education is what remains after one has forgotten everything he learned in school.

3、沒有宗教的科學是瘸子，沒有科學的宗教是瞎子。

原文：Science without religion is lame, religion without science is blind

4、我認為只有大膽的臆測，而不是事實的積累，才能引領我們往前邁進。

原文：I think that only daring speculation can lead us further and not accumulation of facts.

5、如果我們知道我們在做什麼，那麼這就不叫科學研究了;不是嗎?

原文：If we knew what we were doing, it wouldn't be called research, would it?

6、有一個現象的明顯程度已經讓我毛骨悚然，這便是我們的人性已經遠遠落後我們的科學技術了。

原文:It has become appallingly obvious that our technology has exceeded our humanity.

7、這個世界最不可理解的就是它竟然是可以理解的。

原文:The most incomprehensible thing about the world is that it is at all comprehensible.

8、所謂現實只不過是一個錯覺，雖然這個錯覺非常持久。

原文:Reality is merely an illusion, albeit a very persistent one.

9、把你的手放在滾熱的爐子上一分鐘，感覺起來像一小時。坐在一個漂亮姑娘身邊整整一小時，感覺起來像一分鐘。這就是相對論。

原文:Put your hand on a hot stove for a minute, and it seems like an hour. Sit with a pretty girl for an hour, and it seems like a minute. That's relativity.

10、真正使我感興趣的'是上帝創造世界的時候有沒有別的方案可選。

原文:What really interests me is whether God had any choice in the creation of the world.

11、如果一個想法在一開始不是荒謬的，那它就是沒有希望的。

原文：If at first the idea is not absurd, then there is no hope for it.

12、我信仰史賓諾莎的上帝，他以宇宙的秩序與和諧來示現，而不是那個會干涉人類命運和行為的上帝。

原文：I believe in Spinoza's God, Who reveals Himself in the lawful harmony of the world, not in a God Who concerns Himself with the fate and the doings of mankind.

13、如果有來世，我要去做一個商人。

原文:If I had to live my life over again, I would live it as a trader of goods.

14、真理就是在實踐面前站得住腳的東西。

原文：Truth is what stands the test of experience.

15、常識就是人到十八歲為止所累積的各種偏見。

原文：Common sense is the collection of prejudices acquired by age eighteen.

16、一個人從未犯錯是因為他不曾嘗試新鮮事物。

原文：Anyone who has never made a mistake has never tried anything new.

17、創新不是由邏輯思維帶來的，儘管最後的成果需要一個符合邏輯的結構。

原文：Innovation is not the product of logical thought, even though the final product is tied to a logical structure.

18、兩件事情讓我敬畏：佈滿星星的天空和隱藏在其中的人的精神世界。

原文：Two things inspire me to awe: the starry heavens and the moral universe within.

19、當知識的圓周擴大之時，包裹它的黑暗的圓周也一樣。

原文：As our circle of knowledge expands, so does the circumference of darkness surrounding it.

20、並不是我很聰明，而只是我和問題相處得比較久一點。

原文：It's not that I'm so smart, it's just that I stay with problems longer.

21、不必努力去做一個成功者，盡力去成為一個有價值者。

原文：Try not to become a man of success, but rather try to become a man of value.

22、態度上的弱點會變成性格上的弱點。

原文：Weakness of attitude becomes weakness of character.

23、我喜歡旅行，但我不喜歡到達。

原文：I love to travel, but hate to arrive.

24、物理學家們説我是數學家，數學家們又把我歸為物理工作者。我是一個完全孤立的人，雖然所有人都認識我，卻沒有多少人真正瞭解我。

原文： The physicists say that I am a mathematician, and the mathematicians say that I am a physicist. I am a completely isolated man and though everybody knows me, there are very few people who really know me.

25、公式對我更重要，因為政治是為了現在，而公式是永恆的。

原文：Equations are more important to me, because politics is for the present, but an equation is something for eternity.

26、如果我的相對論被證明是正確的，德國人就會説我是德國人，法國佬會説我是一個世界公民。如果我的相對論被否定了，法國佬就會罵我德國鬼子，而德國人就會把我歸為猶太人。

原文：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.

27、宇宙中唯有兩件事物是無限的：那就是宇宙的大小與人的愚蠢。而宇宙的大小我卻不能肯定。

原文：Zwei Dinge sind unendlich: Das Universum und die menschliche Dummheit. Aber beim Universum bin ich mir nicht ganz sicher.