愛因斯坦語錄

一個從未犯錯的人是因為他不曾嘗試新鮮事物。
Anyone who has never made a mistake has never tried anything new.

常識就是人到十八歲為止所累積的各種偏見。
Common sense is the collection of prejudices acquired by age eighteen.

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

我不知道第三次世界大戰會用哪些武器，但第四次世界大戰中人們肯定用的是木棍和石塊。
I do not know with what weapons World War III will be fought, but World War IV will be fought with sticks and stones.

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

創新不是由邏輯思維帶來的，儘管最後的產物有賴於一個符合邏輯的結構。
Innovation is not the product of logical thought, even though the final product is tied to a logical structure.

要打破人的偏見比崩解一個原子還難。
It is harder to crack a prejudice than an atom.

所謂現實只不過是一個錯覺，雖然這個錯覺非常持久。
Reality is merely an illusion, albeit a very persistent one.

真正有價值的是直覺。在探索的道路上智力無甚用處。
The only real valuable thing is intuition. The intellect has little to do on the road to discovery.

創新的秘密在於知道如何把你的智謀藏而不露。
The secret to creativity is knowing how to hide your sources.

科學的全部不過就是日常思考的提煉。
The whole of science is nothing more than a refinement of everyday thinking.

真理就是在經驗面前站得住腳的東西。
Truth is what stands the test of experience.

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,推動著進步,是人類進化的源泉。
Imagination is more important than knowledge. For knowledge is limited, whereas imagination embraces the entire world, stimulating progress, giving birth to evolution.

在我看來，現在有許多人—甚至包括科學家—似乎都祇是見樹不見林。關於歷史與哲學背景的知識，可以提供給那些大部份正受到當代偏頗觀念所左右的科學家們一種不隨波逐流的獨立性。這種由哲學的洞察力所創造的獨立性，依我來看，正是一個工匠或專家，與一個真正的真理追尋者之間，最大的區別。
So many people today — and even professional scientists — seem to me like someone who has seen thousands of trees but has never seen a forest. A knowledge of the historic and philosophical background gives that kind of independence from prejudices of his generation from which most scientists are suffering. This independence created by philosophical insight is — in my opinion — the mark of distinction between a mere artisan or specialist and a real seeker after truth.

如果一個想法在一開始不是荒謬的，那它就是沒有希望的。
If at first the idea is not absurd, then there is no hope for it.

摘錄自：維基語錄，自由的名人名言錄