* 测量一个物体的质量就是测量其中的能量。

原文:The mass of a body is a measure of its energy content.

* 物理学家们说我是数学家，数学家们又把我归为物理工作者。我是一个完全孤立的人，虽然所有人都认识我，却没有多少人真正了解我。

原文:The physicists say that I am a mathematician, and the mathematicians say that I am a physicist. I am a completely isolated man and though everybody knows me, there are very few people who really know me.

* 那我只能对亲爱的主表示遗憾。相对论是正确的。

原文:Then I would have felt sorry for the dear Lord. The theory is correct. - When asked by a student what he would have done if Sir Arthur Eddington's famous 1919 gravitational lensing experiment, which confirmed relativity, had instead disproved it.

* 一个聪明的笨蛋可以把事情做得更大，把事情做得更复杂，也更暴力。这个过程需要一点天才——很多的信念——只是朝着相反的方向。

原文: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.

* 一个人从未犯错是因为他不曾尝试新鲜事物。

原文:Anyone who has never made a mistake has never tried anything new.

* 当知识的圆周扩大之时，包裹它的黑暗的圆周也一样。

原文:As our circle of knowledge expands, so does the circumference of darkness surrounding it.

* 在上帝面前我们都一样聪明——也都一样愚蠢。

原文:Before God we are all equally wise— and equally foolish.

* 常识就是人到十八岁为止所累积的各种偏见。

原文:Common sense is the collection of prejudices acquired by age eighteen.

* 不要担心你的数学水平会有问题；我向你保证我在数学上问题要大得多。

原文: Do not worry about your difficulties in Mathematics. I can assure you mine are still greater.

* 教育就是当一个人把在学校所学全部忘光之後剩下的东西。

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

* 公式对我更重要，因为政治是为了现在，而公式是永恒的。

原文:Equations are more important to me, because politics is for the present, but an equation is something for eternity.

* 上帝并不在乎我们的数学困难。他以经验来管理大局。

原文:God does not care about our mathematical difficulties. He integrates empirically.

* 万有引力并不对人们堕入爱河负责。

原文:Gravitation cannot be held responsible for people falling in love.

* 我无法知道第三次世界大战会有什么武器登场，但第四次世界大战中人们肯定用的是木棍和石块。

原文:I do not know with what weapons World War III will be fought, but World War IV will be fought with sticks and stones.

* 我并不假装理解宇宙——它比我大得多。

原文:I don't pretend to understand the universe— it's much bigger than I am.

* 我喜欢旅行，但我不喜欢到达。

原文:I love to travel, but hate to arrive.

* 我从不展望未来。它来得够快的了。

原文:I never think of the future. It comes soon enough.

* 我认为只有大胆的投机，而不是信息的积累才能把我们往前推。

原文:I think that only daring speculation can lead us further and not accumulation of facts.

* 我想知道上帝的构思；其他的都是细节。

原文:I want to know God's thoughts; the rest are details.

* 如果A代表一个人的成功，那么A等于x加y加z。勤奋工作是x；y是娱乐，而z是把嘴闭上。

原文:If A is a success in life, then A equals x plus y plus z. Work is x; y is play; and z is keeping your mouth shut.

* 如果我再次成为一个展望人生的年轻人，我不会选择成为一个科学家、学者或是教师。我宁可去做一个水管工或是小商贩，希望能享有当今环境下仅存的那一点独立性。

原文:If I would be a young man again and had to decide how to make my living, I would not try to become a scientist or scholar or teacher. I would rather choose to be a plumber or a peddler in the hope to find that modest degree of independence still available under present circumstances.

* 如果我的相对论被证明是正确的，德国人就会说我是德国人，法国佬会说我是一个世界公民。如果我的相对论被否定了，法国佬就会骂我德国鬼子而德国人就会把我归为犹太人。

原文:If my theory of relativity is proven correct, Germany will claim me as a German and France will say I am a man of the world. If it's proven wrong, France will say I am a German and Germany will say I am a Jew.

* 如果我们知道我们在做什么，那么这就不叫科学研究了；不是吗？

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

* 创新不是由逻辑思维带来的，尽管最後的成果需要一个符合逻辑的结构。

原文:Innovation is not the product of logical thought, even though the final product is tied to a logical structure.

* 精神错乱：一遍又一遍地重复同一件事而期待不同的结果。

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

* 有一个现象的明显程度已经让我毛骨悚然，这便是我们的人性已经远远落後我们的科学技术了。

原文:It has become appallingly obvious that our technology has exceeded our humanity.

* 掰开人身上的偏见比掰开一个原子难的多。

原文:It is harder to crack a prejudice than an atom.

* 法律本身并不能保证言论自由；要做到这一点必须使整个人群中都弥漫着容忍的勇气。

原文:Laws alone can not secure freedom of expression; in order that every man present his views without penalty there must be spirit of tolerance in the entire population.

* 人生就像骑单车。想保持平衡就得往前走。

原文:Life is like riding a bicycle. To keep your balance you must keep moving.

* 只有无私的生命才值得活。

原文:Only a life lived for others is a life worthwhile.

* 武力不能维持和平。只有互相理解才可以。

原文: Peace cannot be kept by force. It can only be achieved by understanding.

* 把你的手放在滚热的炉子上一分钟，感觉起来像一小时。坐在一个漂亮姑娘身边整整一小时，感觉起来像一分钟。这就是相对论。

原文:Put your hand on a hot stove for a minute, and it seems like an hour. Sit with a pretty girl for an hour, and it seems like a minute. That's relativity.

* 真相其实只是一个幻象，虽然这个幻象相当顽固。

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

* 科学是好东西，只要它不跟任何人的饭碗挂钩就行。

原文:Science is a wonderful thing if one does not have to earn one's living at it.

* 我们的主很狡猾，好在他不怀歹意。

原文:Subtle is the Lord, but malicious He is not. (Raffiniert ist der Herrgott, aber boshaft ist Er nicht.)

* 天才和愚蠢之间的区别就是天才有它的极限。

原文:The difference between genius and stupidity is that genius has its limits.

* 世界的永恒之谜就是它是可以理解的。

原文:The eternal mystery of the world is its comprehensibility.

* 世界上最让我难以理解的就是所得税。

原文:The hardest thing to understand in the world is the income tax.

* 这个世界最不可理解的就是它是完全可以理解的。

原文:The most incomprehensible thing about the world is that it is at all comprehensible.

* 真正有价值的是直觉。在探索的道路上智力无甚用处。

原文:The only real valuable thing is intuition. The intellect has little to do on the road to discovery.

* 制造当今世界种种问题的人们的思维水平，不足以解决这些问题。

原文:The problems that exist in the world today cannot be solved by the level of thinking that created them.

* 原子能的释放并没有创造新的问题。它仅仅是把解决一个现有问题的工作变得更为急迫。

原文:The release of atomic energy has not created a new problem. It has merely made more urgent the necessity of solving an existing one.

* 拥有创造性的秘密就是把信息来源藏起来。

原文:The secret to creativity is knowing how to hide your sources.

* 所谓科学，就是日常思维的一个精致版本。

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

* 真理就是在实践面前站得住脚的东西。

原文:Truth is what stands the test of experience.

* 两件事情让我敬畏：布满星星的天空和隐藏在其中的人的精神世界。

原文:Two things inspire me to awe: the starry heavens and the moral universe within.

* 不必努力去做一个成功者，尽力去成为一个有价值者。

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

* 态度上的弱点会变成性格上的弱点。

原文:Weakness of attitude becomes weakness of character.

* 真正使我感兴趣的是上帝创造世界的时候有没有别的方案可选。

原文:What really interests me is whether God had any choice in the creation of the world.

* 如果有来世，我要去做一个小商贩。

原文:If I had to live my life over again, I would live it as a trader of goods.

* 如果我给你一个芬尼，你的财富增长而我的财富缩减，幅度都是一个芬尼。但如果我给你一点想法，尽管你有了新的想法，我却并没损失什么。

原文:If I give you a pfennig, you will be one pfennig richer and I'll be one pfennig poorer. But if I give you an idea, you will have a new idea, but I shall still have it, too.

* 并不是我很聪明，而只是我和问题相处得比较久一点。

原文:It's not that I'm so smart, it's just that I stay with problems longer.

* 宇宙中最强大的力就是复利。

原文:The most powerful force in the universe is compound interest.

* 宇宙中唯有两件事物是无限的：那就是宇宙的大小与人的愚蠢。对于前者我并不肯定。

原文:Zwei Dinge sind unendlich: Das Universum und die menschliche Dummheit. Aber beim Universum bin ich mir nicht ganz sicher.

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1

-- Lao Tzu

千里之行始于足下

2 "An eye for an eye only ends up making the whole world blind"  Gandhi

以眼还眼会让整个世界盲瞎。

3 "If you talk to a man in a language he understands, that goes to his head. If you talk to him in his language, that goes to his heart"    Mandela

如果你某人可以理解的语言和某人讲话，他在脑子里接受。如果你以某人自己的语言和某人讲话，他从心里接受。

4 "Better to have loved and lost, than to have never loved at all"   Saint Augustine

爱过而失去，比从未爱过要好的多。

5 "You can't shake hands with a clenched fist." Dalai Lama

你不能和紧握的拳头握手。

6 "And as ye would that men should do to you, do ye also to them likewise"  The Gospel of Luke

己所不欲，勿施于人。欲惠己，需惠人。

7 "We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness."   US Declaration of Independence

8 "To you I'm an atheist; to God, I'm the Loyal Opposition"  Woody Allen

对你来说，我是个艺术家。对上帝来说，我是个忠实的反对派。

9 "All the world's a stage,
And all the men and women merely players."
As You Like It 。                                                          William Shakespeare

10 "If I have seen further, it is by standing upon the shoulders of giants"  Sir Isaac Newton

last night when i was watching the ceremony, i was laughing, i was just so happy to see a black man to become american president.
after i watched the ceremony, there was a sentence in my brain, "america is a great nation". this nation has the ability to face and correct the mistakes that were done before. i rembered the sentences in our politican book " the two parties system just want to cheat the  american people. there is no diffence wheather Democratic Party or Republican Party ruling party is. because they have the same interest."
but this is total lie. they do have different interst. the differences between the politiks of obama and bush are siganificant.

i dont know, if it is a coincident  or is is planed that a presiden, a poet and a priest gave speeches on the ceremony.
a great takes care  the real interst of american people.
poet takes care the heart of american people.
priest takes care the spirit of the american people.
these 3 typs of people gave speeches was a great symble. if there was also a scientist, who gives a speech on the ceremony, there will be perfect.
a good society needs 4 these 4 typs of people.

futher more i was so excited that the peom gave speech on the ceremony.

今晚德语班上，我们一块儿做了一个小游戏，德语叫做Fluesterpost, Fluester是耳语的意思，Post就是邮件，这里是传递信息的意思。
这个游戏翻译成中文大概可以叫做，耳语传信。在这个游戏里，开头的一个人对他的邻居耳语一句话，不能让别人听见，大家一个个的耳语传下去，直到所有的人都传过一遍，最后那个人说出来他说听到的内容。结果，每次最后那个人说出的内容和最初那个人说的内容大相径庭，这里面当然有语言能力的问题。但信息在传递过程过程中的失真也通过这个游戏表露无疑。通过越多的媒介，信息的正确性会越来越小。
这个游戏还是大家在一个共同的空间，在极短的时间里完成的，如果信息传递者与接受者空间上时间上都相距很远，失真的程度应该会更严重。这只是一个理论上的小思考，在实践中这个小游戏也是可以被应用的。

比如在外语教学课堂上。但是玩这个游戏的小组不能太大，人数不能太多。
这个游戏也可以用来推广母语教学。外语教学本身也是一种信息传递，说母语者无疑能把信息的失真降到最低。而非母语者总是经过多重媒介才和某种语言有关系，这个非母语者去教别人这种语言，期间的信息失真性可想而知了。

今天德语班读到这一句， Der Geist ist willig, aber die menschlische Natur ist schwach.
翻译成俗语就是， 意志是强悍的，身体是软弱的。

不得不承认，你我，乃至这世界上的大部分人都是平凡人，精神上和物理上的平凡，到处都充斥着有着类似功用的可以替代我们的人。
是爱情让我们偶尔超越这种平凡，达到无限和永恒。

本文转载自阮一峰的网络日志。http://http://www.ruanyifeng.com/blog/2007/08/172_disappeared_miners.html

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《风暴过去之后——纪念“渤海2号”钻井船遇难的72名同志》。1979年11月25日，一个典型的官僚主义瞎指挥造成渤海2号钻井船在渤海海面上翻沉，72人遇难身亡。舒婷为此写下了这首著名的诗：

一
在渤海湾
铅云低垂着挽联的地方
有我七十二名兄弟

在春天每年必经的路上
波涛和残冬合谋
阻断了七十二个人的呼吸
二
七十二双灼热的视线
没能把太阳
从水平线上举起
七十二双钢缆般的臂膀
也没能加固
一小片覆没的陆地
他们像锚一样沉落了
暴风雪
暂时取得了胜利
三
七十二名儿子
使他们父亲的晚年黯淡
七十二名父亲
成为儿子们遥远的记忆

站在岸上远眺的人
终于忧伤地垂下了头
像一个个粗大的问号
矗在港口，写在黄昏
填进未来的航海日记

希望的桅杆上
下了半旗
四
台风早早已经登陆
可是,七十二个人被淹灭的呼吁
在铅字之间曲曲折折地穿行
终于通过麦克风
撞响了正义的回音壁 盛夏时分
千百万颗心
骤然感到寒意
五
不,我不是即兴创作
一个古罗马的悲剧
我请求人们和我一道沉思
我爷爷的身价
曾是地主家的二升小米
我父亲为了一个大写的"人"字
用胸膛堵住了敌人的火力
难道我仅仅比爷爷幸运些
值两个铆钉,一架机器
六
谁说生命是一片树叶
凋谢了,树林依然充满生机
谁说生命是一朵浪花
消失了,大海照样奔流不息
谁说英雄已被追认
死亡可以被忘记
谁说人类现代化的未来
必须以生命做这样血淋淋的祭礼
七
我希望,汽笛召唤我时
妈妈不必为我牵挂忧虑
我希望,我受到的待遇
不要使孩子的心灵畸曲
我希望,我活着并且劳动
为了别人也为了自己
我希望,若是我死了
再不会有人的良心为之颤栗
最后我衷心地希望
未来的诗人们
不再有这种无力的愤怒当七十二双
长满海藻和红珊瑚的眼睛
紧紧盯住你的笔
1980年8月6日
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下面是阮一峰自己的文章，

长眠矿底的172名矿工

《新京报》报道说，这些矿工本来是有机会逃生的。

发现透水后，不少工人区段曾打电话上报，但是井上当时无法判断事态趋势，未立即要求工人上井。矿上部分工人反映，煤矿管理者实行的是准军事化管理。

“很多人养成了习惯，上面的人不命令行动，就不敢行动。”一位同样不愿透露姓名的矿工说。

一位老家在新汶的网友留言感叹说，矿工遇到洪水也不敢逃生，可想而知平时过的是什么生活！

矿上的职工太可怜了，做人没有尊严，人与人之间严重不平等。我老家在新汶，每每回家听到矿上的亲戚谈起所谓 的军事化管理，感到的是悲哀。社会应该关注社会底层的职工，当遇到洪水都不敢逃生，平时要忍受多大的压力。 希望有人披露一下黑暗的现代矿工生活。

另一位网友则留言披露了一些当地的内幕：

我知道新矿集团的每一个矿长正当的公开的收入每年都在百万以上，老郎的年薪实际达到600万以上，他的二儿子一年依靠集团公司收入不低于1000万 （看看他的那个奔驰S600就知道了）。他的大儿子是新矿集团下辖最大的煤矿的经营副矿长，正当收入不到几十万，但是灰色收入惊人，不比他老爸少。他的弟 弟、外甥、侄子、等等一大家子，只要是有点亲戚关系的，从近到远对应着职位由大到小。整个新汶矿业集团，其实就是他们家的私人企业，做的所有的管力措施， 包括3S、2S以及现在的准军事化管理，不就是为了让职工们学得麻木，不敢说真话，听领导的话，就像是他们的狗一样活着。

新矿的一般下井一线回采工人收入在1800到2000左右，加班很多的话会拿到25 00到3000，那属于很少的个例，因为一般人不可能有体力加那么多班。可是领导呢，一个井下工区的区长一年收入如果少于10万包括奖金，那他就属于愣子 级别的，也做不了多长时间就会下台，因为你没有钱来孝敬上一级领导。整个新矿集团就是这样，撑死当官的，饿死下井的。你想想一个正式的一线下井工人，还不 如在局大院办公室里一个天天上网聊天的小姑娘拿钱多！

最后是一位参加救援活动的矿工的留言，他说很多矿工就是因为害怕丢掉当天的30元工资，而没有能够及时逃出来：

我是新矿的一员，我是井下工作的工人，我是家庭的支柱，我是七旬老父的惟一儿子，这171人都和我一样～～不同的是我是这次抗灾的参与人员，我三天 没睡觉了～～他们却在被救援，永久沉睡～～～这171人，很多都是有逃生的机会，但是他们放弃了，他们在等上层领导是否撤除的命令，因为他们怕万一私自放 弃了工作任务，就会被摸杠，当天近30元的工资就会没有，30元！没错，是30元夺走了他们的生命，一个月冒着生命危险，就因为这900元！900元！也 没错！能卖40KG猪肉的价钱丧送了一个又一个百十斤的汉子～～指挥部里，没有人会说是因为通知下的晚，没有人说是管理的责任，没有人说早就知道隐患！他 们不会说他们的工人工资是900 元，他们只知道这个月今年的工资、奖金、风险抵押金没有了～他们每个人可能损失了几百万，矿长可能损失了上千万！！！

这让我想起了舒婷的一首诗《风暴过去之后——纪念“渤海2号”钻井船遇难的72名同志》。1979年11月25日，一个典型的官僚主义瞎指挥造成渤海2号钻井船在渤海海面上翻沉，72人遇难身亡。舒婷为此写下了这首著名的诗：

谁说生命是一片树叶
凋谢了,树林依然充满生机
谁说生命是一朵浪花
消失了，大海照样奔流不息

谁说英雄已被追认
死亡可以被忘记了！
谁说人类现代化的未来
必须以生命做这样血淋淋的祭礼

不再有这种无力的愤怒
当七十二双
长满海藻和红珊瑚的眼睛
紧紧盯住你的笔

这首诗写于二十多年前。但是今天来看，中国底层人民的处境没有变好，反而变得更糟了，而且一点都看不到改善的希望。

我对中国煤矿事故的更多评论，请看我二年前写的《命比煤贱》。

有时候，苦难会成为压舱石，没有它生命会显得轻飘而放荡不羁，一如醉舟似的兰波。

before 2 years i talked with professor Vogt about the reason of  the borning of democracy. why  democracy was born  in europa but not in china.
he said, my opionen  was geoderminism.  today  i have learned the mein idea of environmental determinism on wikipedia. i think, my thesis is more enviromental possibilism.

Linguistic determinism is the idea that language shapes thought.

"The limits of my language mean the limits of my world." (proposition 5.6), "The subject does not belong to the world, but it is a limit of the world." (proposition 5.632) and "About what one can not speak, one must remain silent." (proposition 7). Wittgenstein

speakers of different languages may see different numbers of bands in a rainbow. Since rainbows are actually a continuum of color, there are no empirical stripes or bands, and yet people see as many bands as their language possesses primary color words.  Benjamin Lee Whorf

A separate angle on linguistic determinism maintains that language is the only thing that is ever known. The objective world is entirely removed by the presence of language.  for me, this point is too strong to be proven. sure, language is powerful to shape thoughts. according this theory the dummy people know nothing, just like, they never have been lived in the world.

有人曾梦想以笔为剑，
如今却尽是枪手写手，

看来以笔为剑多是天真人的梦想，鲁迅先生似乎在深心处也未对此抱有很大期望，但痛苦且行动才是英雄之道，没有这些天真人，这个世界恐怕会更丑陋一些。

枪手，写手的是另一个层面，工人的层面，大量生产赚取生活，生产并不总是创造。

罗素说：“三种极其单纯然而非常强烈的激情支配着我的一生，那就是对爱的渴望，对知识 的追求，以及对人类苦难痛彻肺腑的悲悯。
now i feel the conflict of these 3 emotions inside me. i fell my weakness inside me. look for a port a ship, where is port and ship?!

罗素竟然也是和平主义者，有很多不错的关于和平主义的著作，一定要去看看。

我要同等地既谴责那些下定决心赞美人类的人，也谴责那些下定决心谴责人类的人，还要谴责那些下定决心自寻其乐的人；
我只能赞许那些一面哭泣一面追求着的人。   
                                                                                                     帕斯卡 沉思录