【英漢對照】英語諺語與名人名言集錦: Modern Science and Technology
The whole of science is nothing more than a refinement of everyday thinking.
— Albert Einstein, German-born scientist
全部科學只不過是對日常思維的提煉。
——徳裔科學家 阿爾伯特·愛因斯坦
Every great advance in science has issued from a new audacity of imagination.
— John Dewey , American philosopher
每一次科學的進步都源於大膽的創新想象。
—— 美國哲學家 約翰·杜威
Science without religion is lame, religion without science is blind.
— Albert Einstein, German-born scientist
沒有信念的科學是瘸子,沒有科學的信念是瞎子。
——徳裔科學家 阿爾伯特·愛因斯坦
A man sits with a pretty girl for an hour, it seems like a minute. He sits on a hot stove for a minute, it's longer than any hour. That is relativity.
— Albert Einstein, German-born scientist
坐在一個漂亮姑娘身邊整整一小時,感覺起來像一分鐘。而坐在滾熱的爐子上一分鐘,感覺起來像一小時。這就是相對論。
——徳裔科學家 阿爾伯特·愛因斯坦
The scientific demarcation is like the horizon; the closer you are to it, the father it moves.
— Bertolt Brecht, German scientist
科學的界限就像地平線一樣,你越接近它,它挪得越遠。
——徳國科學家 布萊希特
All science is either physics or stamp collecting.
— Lord Kelvin, English physician
科學或許是物理或許是集郵。
——英國物理學家 羅德·開爾文
Science is a wonderful thing if one does not have to earn one's living at it.
科學是個美妙的東西,如果無須靠它維生的話。
——徳裔科學家 阿爾伯特·愛因斯坦
There is no science that is completely divorced from life.
— Yang Zhenning, Chinese-American physicist
沒有一種科學是同生活完全脫離的。
——華裔美國物理學家 楊振寧
Science is unpredictable. If I had known it, I would have found it before.
— Stephen Hawking, English scientist
科學是不可預測的。如果我要是知道的話,我早就把它做出來了。
——英國科學家 阿爾伯特斯蒂芬·霍金
True science teaches, above all, to doubt and be ignorant.
— Miguel de Unamuno, Spanish writer
真正的科學首先教人懷疑和知道自己無知。
——西班牙作家 米格爾·德·烏納穆諾
Studying knowledge needs thinking again and again, which is a learning method helping me becoming a scientist.
— Albert Einstein, German-born scientist
學習知識要善於思考、思考、再思考,我就是靠這個學習方法才成為科學家。
——徳裔科學家 阿爾伯特·愛因斯坦
節選自《大學英語新概念閱讀教程》(第三冊)(主編 李華田,武漢大學出版社,2012年6月)