複利的力量愛因斯坦

知識唯一的來源是經驗。

The only source of knowledge is experience.

偉大的靈魂總是遭受來自平庸心靈的反對。

Great spirits have always encountered opposition from mediocre minds.

我很少用文字思考。我的視覺圖像必須很辛苦地轉譯成傳統的語言和數學用語。

I rarely think in words at all. My visual images have to be translated laboriously into conventional verbal and mathematical terms.

如果我有1小時拯救世界，我會花55分鐘去確認問題為何，只以5分鐘尋找解決方案。

If I had one hour to save the world, I would spend 55 minutes defining the problem and only 5 minutes finding the solution.

如果你沒辦法向一個6歲孩子解釋你想要做什麼，那麼你大概自己也還不太清楚。

If you cannot explain what you are attempting to accomplish to a sixyear-old child, then you are probably not clear about it yourself.

如果你無法簡單地解釋，表示你還不夠了解。

If you can't explain it simply, you don't understand it well enough.

你的點子唯一需要有創意的地方，就在如何把這個點子應用在你要解決的問題上。

Your idea has to be original only in its adaptation to the problem you are working on.

生活方式只有兩種：一種是相信凡事沒有奇蹟；另一種則是把所有事都當作奇蹟。

There are only two ways to live your life. One is as though nothing is a miracle. The other is as though everything is a miracle.

任何聰明的傻瓜都可以把事情搞得更大、更複雜、更極端。有了天才的帶領，加上相當的勇氣，才能扭轉局面。

Any intelligent fool can make things bigger, more complex, and more violent. It takes a touch of genius—and a lot of courage—to move in the opposite direction.

現實也不過就是假象，只不過這個假象反覆出現在眼前。

Reality is merely an illusion, albeit a very persistent one.

過了一定年紀之後，閱讀會讓我們難以追求創意。人只要讀太多書又很少用腦，就容易懶得思考。

Reading, after a certain age, diverts the mind too much from its creative pursuits. Any man who reads too much and who uses his brain too little falls into lazy habits of thinking.

我可以跟藝術家一樣，自由揮灑我的想像力。想像力比知識更重要，知識是有限的，想像力卻可以囊括整個世界。

I am enough of an artist to draw freely upon my imagination. Imagination is more important than knowledge. Knowledge is limited. Imagination encircles the world.

直覺是上天的恩賜，理性則是忠實的僕人。然而我們營造的社會，卻把榮耀歸給僕人，遺忘了恩賜。

The intuitive mind is a sacred gift and the rational mind is a faithful servant. We have created a society that honors the servant and has for-gotten the gift.

你若告訴我，有人從未失敗過，我就告訴你，那個人還不夠努力。

Show me someone who has never failed and I will show you someone who hasn't tried hard enough.

好奇心可以在正規教育中保存下來，真是奇蹟。

It is a miracle that curiosity survives formal education.

不必追求成功，但求當個有用的人。

Try not to become a man of success, but rather try to become a man of value.

思考是件苦差事，因此很少人會去做。

Thinking is hard work; that's why so few do it.

科學不過是把日常所思加以精煉。

The whole of science is nothing more than a refinement of everyday thinking.

我相信，能被計算的，不一定重要；重要的事，不一定能被計算。

I believe that not everything that can be counted counts, and not everything that counts can be counted.

經驗是知識的唯一來源。

The only source of knowledge is experience.

什麼是世界上最強大的力量？是複利。

The greatest force in the world? Compound interest.

如果某個點子一開始聽來就不夠古怪，這個點子就沒有什麼潛力了。

If at first an idea doesn't sound absurd, there's no hope for it.

我認為，簡單而謙遜的生活方式是最適合大家的，對身、心都是。

I believe that a simple and unassuming manner of life is best for everyone, best both for the body and the mind.

用製造問題的腦筋去解決問題是行不通的。

Problems cannot be solved at the same level of awareness that created them.

什麼叫瘋子，就是重複做同樣的事情還期待會出現不同的結果。

Insanity: doing the same thing over and over again and expecting different results.

愈簡單愈好，但不要簡單過了頭。

Make things as simple as possible, and no simpler.

如果你沒辦法簡單說明，代表你了解得不夠透徹。