Of course, relative citation frequencies are no measure of relative importance. Who has not aspired to write a paper so fundamental that very soon it is known to everyone and cited by no one?

  • -- Abraham Pais 亚伯拉罕·派斯

当然,相对引用频率并不能衡量相对重要性。谁没有想过要写一篇如此基础的论文,以至于很快大家都知道了,却没有人引用它呢?

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Fundamental ideas are not a consequence of experience, but a result of the particular constitution and activity of the mind, which is independent of all experience in its origin, though constantly combined with experience in its exercise.

基本思想不是经验的结果,而是头脑的特定结构和活动的结果,这种结构和活动独立于一切经验的起源,尽管在实践中不断地与经验相结合。

A life lesson for me is, how do you muster the courage to take on a new risk? Whether it's starting up a business or taking on a new project or expedition. I think the risks that we take are all relative to the risk-taker.

对我来说,人生的一课就是,你如何鼓起勇气去承担新的风险?无论是创业还是开始一个新项目或探险。我认为我们所承担的风险都与冒险者有关。

Information of fundamental importance to the general problem of atomic structure has resulted from systematic studies of the cosmic radiation carried out by the Wilson cloud-chamber method.

威尔逊云室法对宇宙辐射进行了系统的研究,得到了对原子结构一般问题具有根本重要性的信息。

I suddenly realised, hey, I'm not a lazy idiot, I'm an idler! It's something to aspire to, it's part of the creative process! That's fantastic!

我突然意识到,嘿,我不是一个懒惰的白痴,我是一个游手好闲的人!这是一种渴望,是创造过程的一部分!那太棒了!

Normal is not something to aspire to, it's something to get away from.

正常并不是一种渴望,而是一种逃避。

Where there's a will - there's a relative!

哪里有遗嘱,哪里就有亲戚!