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。

It would be fun to have someone in the White House who has worked in the private sector... and someone who understands that wealth creation is a good thing and they want more of it. Wealth is good.

如果白宫有一位在私营部门工作过的人,那将会很有趣。他们明白创造财富是一件好事,他们想要更多。财富是好的。

It is wrong to think that the task of physics is to find out how Nature is. Physics concerns what we say about Nature.

认为物理学的任务是发现自然界是怎样的是错误的。物理学关注我们对自然的看法。

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。

She thoroughly understands what no other Church has ever understood, how to deal with enthusiasts.

她完全理解其他教会从未理解过的东西,即如何与狂热者打交道。

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。

I was always good at math and science and physics.

我一直擅长数学、科学和物理。