一切事务都有研究的价值
Everything has the research value
科学是不可预测的。如果我要是知道的话，我早就把它做出来了。
——[英国]斯蒂芬·霍金
Science is unpredictable. If I had known it, I would have found it before. (Britain) Stephen Hawking
科学是包罗万象的事业，它需要有各方面的才能。
——[美国] 杨振宁
Science is an all-embracing cause requiring all kinds of abilities. (America) Yang Zhenning
牛角尖不是绝对不可以钻，但是必须保持主动性，保持有见机而退的能力与勇气。
——[美国] 杨振宁
It is not absolutely wrong to focus on insignificant or insoluble problems, but one should keep his initiative as well as the abilities and courage to retreat according to circumstances. (America) Yang Zhenning
从一个妄想中醒悟过来并不是意味着就具备了与现实打交道所必须的长远观点。
——[美国] 杨振宁
Waking up from one delusion does not mean you have already had the long views required to contact with reality.
(America) Yang Zhenning
吸收别人的东西并不坏，但必须排除对你可能有的坏影响或无用的部分，同时转变及模铸好的部分，变成自己的。
——[美国] 杨振宁
It is not bad to learn from others, but you must remove the parts which are useless or may have bad effects on you; while change and forge good parts and make them into your own.
(America) Yang Zhenning
各种知识之间本来又都有着密切的联系，它们不可能被各自独立地分开来。只有在全面的普通的文化知识的基础之上，才能真正掌握和精通一门科学。
——吴玉章
All branches of knowledge are closely related between each other by nature and therefore cannot be separated. You cannot truly grasp and master any kind of science without the basis of comprehensive common knowledge.
Wu Yuzhang
用尽了人类的智慧，固然可以知道许多事情的真相，可知道的只有很浅近的一点，决不是全宇宙。
——顾颉刚
Although a lot of truth can be disclosed by exhausting mankind’s wisdom, what we can know is just something superficial, not the whole universe.
Gu Jiegang
已存在的比未产生的更值得我们注意和希望。
——沈从文
Existing things deserve more attention and hope from us than those never existed.
Shen Congwen
科学结论，是点成的金，量中有限;科学方法，是点石的指，可以产生无穷的金。
——蔡元培
Scientific conclusions are the gold with limited amount; while scientific means is the magic that can be utilized to produce endless amount of gold.
Cai Yuanpei
武断，作为批判的对立面，却是科学的敌人。
——邓拓
Although they are the opposite side of criticism, arbitrary decisions are the enemy of science.
Deng Tuo
科学的根本精神在于求真理
The ultimate spirit of science is to seek truth
科学永远对抗着迷信以及一切蒙昧无知的思想。
——竺可桢
Science always resists superstition and benighted thoughts.
Zhu Kezhen
要赶上先进的技术水平，不能只靠引进，因为引进到投产总要一段时间，作为先进技术引进的东西到投产时已经陈旧了，不如采取小规模、多样性、试验性质的引进，在引进过程中建立自己能不断革新技术的科技队伍。
——费孝通
To catch up with the advanced technology, we cannot merely depend on import. That is because the advanced technology imported is likely to be out of date when it is put into production. Therefore, it would be better to make a diversified import trial on a small scale first and set up technical groups to improve techniques at the same time.
Fei Xiaotong
科学的态度是实事求是
The attitude of science is being practical and realistic
在科学工作中要有严格的自我批评精神，有实事求是的精神，这是青年从事科学工作的第一关。
——钱学森
Before taking up scientific research, the youth should have the courage to criticize themselves strictly and the spirit to seek the truth from facts.
Qian Xuesen
我甘愿当“人梯”，让青年一代踩着我的肩膀，攀登世界科学技术的高峰。
——华罗庚
I would like to be a ladder, which the younger generation can step on to scale the heights of science.
Hua Luogeng
科学是老老实实的东西，它要靠许许多多的人民的劳动和智慧积累起来的。
——李四光
Science is an honest thing; it should be accumulated by thousands of people’s labor and intelligence.
Li Siguang
发展独立思考和独立判断的能力，应当始终放在首位，而不应当把获得专业知识放在首位。
——[德国]爱因斯坦
Developing the ability of thinking and judging independently instead of obtaining professional knowledge should be put in the first place.
(Germany) Albert Einstein
想象力比知识更重要，因为知识是有限的，而想象力概括着世界上的一切，推动着进步，并且是知识进化的源泉。
——[德国] 爱因斯坦
Imagination is more important than knowledge, for knowledge is limited while imagination embraces the entire world, pushes improvement and is the source of knowledge evolution.
(Germany ) Albert Einstein
学习知识要善于思考、思考、再思考，我就是靠这个学习方法才成为科学家。
——[德国] 爱因斯坦
Studying knowledge needs thinking again and again, which is a learning method helping me become a scientist.
(Germany)Albert Einstein
没有想象力的灵魂，就像没有望远镜的天文台。
——[德国] 爱因斯坦
A soul without imagination is like an observatory without the telescope.
(Germany)Albert Einstein
科学是讲究实际的。科学是老老实实的学问，来不得半点虚假，需要付出艰巨的劳动。同时，科学也需要创造，需要幻想，有幻想才能打破传统的束缚，才能发展科学。
——郭沫若
Science seeks truth from facts. It is an honest thing, which cannot endure anything false and demands arduous work. Meanwhile, science also needs creation and imagination. Only imagination can break traditional restraints and develop science.
Guo Moruo
科学的界限就像地平线一样,你越接近它,它挪得越远。
——[德国] 布莱希特
The scientific demarcation is like the horizon; the closer you are to it, the father it moves.
(Germany) Bertolt Brecht
没有一种科学是同生活绝对脱离的
There is no science that is completely divorced from life
科学决对不是只有逻辑.
——[美国]杨振宁
Science does not only have logic at all.
(America)Jonathan Salle
艺术家和科学家的价值在于没有私欲的服务，在于为万人的利益服务。
——[美国]罗斯福
The value of artists and scientists lies in their selfless service for all people’s interests.
科学的本质是：问一个不恰当的问题，于是走上了通往恰当答案的路。 —jacob bronowski
that is the essence of science: ask an impertinent question, and you are on the way to the pertinent answer.
在过去人们面临的危险是变成奴隶，而在将来危险是人类可能变成机器人。—erich fromm
the danger of the past was that men became slaves. the danger of the future is that men may become robots.
知识是一宝库，而实践就是开启宝库大门的钥匙。—fuller
knowledge is a treasure, but practice is the key to it.
真正的金科玉律就是世上并无金科玉律。—g.b.shaw
the golden rule is that there are no golden rules.
热爱大自然的人内外感觉协调一致，即使进入成年后依然保持着童心。 —emerson
the lover of nature is he whose inward and outward senses are still truly adjusted to each other; who has retained the spirit of infancy even into the era of manhood.
以爱心聚在一起的十个人能够完成一万个分散的人做不到的事情。—thomas
ten men banded together in love can do what ten thousand separately would fail in.
想象不应脱离现实。—a.n.
carlyle imagination is not to be divorced from the facts.
每个故事都可以从两个方面看，至少两个方面。—ann landers
whitehead there are two sides to every story ..at least.
今天不同于昨天。我们自己也在改变。那么，我们的著作和思想，如果想永远不过时，怎么能始终不改变呢? —thomas carlyle
today is not yesterday. we ourselves change. how then can our works and thoughts, if they are always to be fittest, continue always the same?