1、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。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.

2、「没有宗教的科学是跛的，没有科学的宗教是瞎的。」

3、只要我还能有所选择，我就只想生活在这样的国家里，这个国家中所实行的是：公民、自由、宽容，以及在法律面前公民一律平等。公民自由意味着人们有用言语和文字表示其政治信念的自由；宽容意味着尊重别人的无论哪种可能有的信念。这些条件目前在德国都不存在。那些对国际谅解事业有特别重大贡献的人，在那里正受到迫害，其中就有一些是一流的艺术家。

4、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.

5、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.

6、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.

7、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.

8、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.

9、当知识的圆周扩大之时，黑暗的圆周也一样。

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

10、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.

11、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.

12、不要担心数学问题；我保证我的问题要大得多。

原文:do not worry about your difficulties in mathematics. i can assure you mine are still greater.

13、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.

14、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.

15、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.

16、万有引力并不是那些陷入爱河的人找人算帐时的目标。

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

17、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.

19、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.

20、我喜欢旅行，但我不喜欢到达。

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

21、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.

22、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.

23、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.

24、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。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.

25、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，只期盼能当今社会还有一定程度上的自由。

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.

26、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.

27、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?

28、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.

29、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.

30、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.

31、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.

32、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.

33、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.

34、只有无私的生命才值得活。

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

36、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.

37、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.

38、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.

39、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.

40、天才和愚蠢之间的区别就是天才有它的限制。

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

41、其可理解性是这个世界永远的谜。

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

42、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.

43、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.

44、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.

45、当今世界的种种困难并不能被创造它们的人的思维层次解决。

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

46、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.

47、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.

48、科学的全部就是正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.

49、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.

50、两件事情让我敬畏：布满星星的天堂和被包含其中的精神宇宙。

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

51、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.

52、态度上的弱点会变成性格上的弱点。

原文:weakness of attitude becomes weakness of character.

53、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.

54、如果有来世，我要去做一个商人。

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

55、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.

56、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.

57、宇宙中最强大的力就是利滚利。

原文:the most powerful force in the universe is compound interest. 58、宇宙中唯有两件事物是无限的：那就是宇宙的大小与人的蠢笨。然而宇宙的大小我却不能肯定。