It is impossible to trap modern physics into predicting anything with perfect determinism because it deals with probabilities from the outset.

  • -- Arthur Eddington 爱丁顿

现代物理学不可能用完全决定论来预测任何事情,因为它从一开始就涉及概率。

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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.

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。

God, he deals you blows that at sometimes you think you can't handle and in the last year there have been things that we thought we couldn't handle but we've dealt with it up until this point.

上帝,他打击你,有时你觉得你无法处理,在过去的一年里,有一些事情我们认为我们无法处理,但我们一直在处理,直到这一点。

Its a mathematical fact that two negatives make a positive so even under adverse circumstances think positively.

这是一个数学事实,负负得正,所以即使在不利的情况下也要积极思考。

A pure mathematical series would be one in which each term is derived from the preceding term by a rule.

一个纯数学级数应该是一个每一项都由前一项根据规则推导出来的级数。

There are relatively few experiments in atomic physics these days that don't involve the use of a laser.

目前在原子物理学中,相对较少的不涉及激光的实验。

I'm not an autobiographical writer, but I am a writer who deals with human emotion on all levels.

我不是一个自传体作家,但我是一个作家谁处理人类情感的各个层次。

I stopped predicting the future a long time ago.

我很久以前就不再预测未来了。