It takes so long 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

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 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。

At present, I am mainly observing the physical motion of mountains, water, trees and flowers. One is everywhere reminded of similar movements in the human body, of similar impulses of joy and suffering in plants.

目前,我主要观察山、水、树、花的物理运动。到处都能让人想起人体中类似的运动,想起植物中类似的欢乐和痛苦的冲动。

There could be no fairer destiny for any physical theory than that it should point the way to a more comprehensive theory in which it lives on as a limiting case.

对任何物理理论来说,没有比这更公平的命运了:它应该为一种更全面的理论指明道路,在这种理论中,它作为一种极限情况而存在。

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。

Running away from your problems is a race you'll never win.

逃避问题是一场永远不会赢的比赛。

I have the problems of, I must confess, old age.

我必须承认,我有年老的问题。