我们永远要像充满好奇心的孩子一样,站在我们诞生于其中的的巨大奥秘面前,惊叹不已。
对各种权威的怀疑源于这次经历,这种态度从未离开过我。
任何真正新颖的东西都是在一个人的青年时期发明发现出来的,当一个人变得更有经验,更有名,也更顽固。
引导人们走向艺术和科学的最强烈动机之一,是逃离日常琐碎生活及其痛苦的粗鲁和绝望的沉闷,就像这些人将宇宙及其构建置于他们情感生活的枢纽中,以寻找他们在个人生活的狭窄漩涡中找不到的和平和安全。
宇宙将目光投向一个二维生物,它一生都在为后来成为地球的东西服务,它可以旅行数百万年,并且总是会回到它的起点,它永远不会意识到它上面或下面的是什么。
我们必须记住,(地球)这是一颗非常小的恒星,可能还有一些更大、更重要的恒星,可能是非常虚拟和快乐的(更适合人类居住?)。
To punish me for my contempt for authority, fate made me an authority myself.
In teaching history, there should be extensive discussion of personalities who benefited mankind through independence of character and judgement.
Critical comments by students should be taken in a friendly spirit, accumulation of material should not stifle the student’s independence.
A society’s competitive advantage will come not from how well its schools teach the multiplication and periodic tables, but from how well they stimulate imagination and creativity.
I believe that love is a better teacher than the sense of duty, he said, at least for me.
At the close of our studies, we knew all the past of physics, but nothing of the present and the future.
Something deeply hidden had to be behind things.
We never cease to stand like curious children before the great mystery into which we were born.
Suspicion against every kind of authority grew out of this experience, an attitude which has never again left me.
Anything truly novel is invented only during one’s youth, later one becomes more experienced more famous, and more blockheaded.
One of the strongest motives that lead men to art and science, is escape from everyday life with its painful crudity and hopeless dreariness, such men make this cosmos and its construction in the pivot of their emotional life, in ordered to find the peace and the security, which they cannot find in the narrow whirlpool of personal experience.
The universe would look to a two-dimensional creature who spend its life moving on the service of what turned out to be a globe, it could travel for millions of years and would always return to its starting point, it would never be conscious of what was above it or beneath it.
We must remember that this is a very small star and probably some of the larger and the more important stars and may be very virtual and happy.