一切事務都有研究的價值
Everything has the research value
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]斯蒂芬·霍金
Science is unpredictable. If I had known it, I would have found it before. (Britain) Stephen Hawking
科學是包羅萬象的事業，它需要有各方面的才能。
——[美國] 楊振寧
Science is an all-embracing cause requiring all kinds of abilities. (America) Yang Zhenning
牛角尖不是絕對不可以鑽，但是必須保持主動性，保持有見機而退的能力與勇氣。
——[美國] 楊振寧
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
從一個妄想中醒悟過來並不是意味着就具備了與現實打交道所必須的長遠觀點。
——[美國] 楊振寧
Waking up from one delusion does not mean you have already had the long views required to contact with reality.
(America) Yang Zhenning
吸收別人的東西並不壞，但必須排除對你可能有的壞影響或無用的部分，同時轉變及模鑄好的部分，變成自己的。
——[美國] 楊振寧
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
各種知識之間本來又都有着密切的聯繫，它們不可能被各自獨立地分開來。只有在全面的普通的文化知識的基礎之上，才能真正掌握和精通一門科學。
——吳玉章
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
用盡了人類的智慧，固然可以知道許多事情的真相，可知道的只有很淺近的一點，決不是全宇宙。
——顧頡剛
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
已存在的比未產生的更值得我們注意和希望。
——沈從文
Existing things deserve more attention and hope from us than those never existed.
Shen Congwen
科學結論，是點成的金，量中有限;科學方法，是點石的指，可以產生無窮的金。
——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
武斷，作爲批判的對立面，卻是科學的敵人。
——鄧拓
Although they are the opposite side of criticism, arbitrary decisions are the enemy of science.
Deng Tuo
科學的根本精神在於求真理
The ultimate spirit of science is to seek truth
科學永遠對抗着迷信以及一切矇昧無知的思想。
——竺可楨
Science always resists superstition and benighted thoughts.
Zhu Kezhen
要趕上先進的技術水平，不能只靠引進，因爲引進到投產總要一段時間，作爲先進技術引進的東西到投產時已經陳舊了，不如採取小規模、多樣性、試驗性質的引進，在引進過程中建立自己能不斷革新技術的科技隊伍。
——費孝通
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 That is because the advanced technology imported is likely to be out of date when it is put into production.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
科學的態度是實事求是
The attitude of science is being practical and realistic
在科學工作中要有嚴格的自我批評精神，有實事求是的精神，這是青年從事科學工作的第一關。
——錢學森
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
我甘願當“人梯”，讓青年一代踩着我的肩膀，攀登世界科學技術的高峯。
——華羅庚
I would like to be a ladder, which the younger generation can step on to scale the heights of science.
Hua Luogeng
科學是老老實實的東西，它要靠許許多多的人民的勞動和智慧積累起來的。
——李四光
Science is an honest thing; it should be accumulated by thousands of people’s labor and intelligence.
Li Siguang
發展獨立思考和獨立判斷的能力，應當始終放在首位，而不應當把獲得專業知識放在首位。
——[德國]愛因斯坦
Developing the ability of thinking and judging independently instead of obtaining professional knowledge should be put in the first place.
(Germany) Albert Einstein
想象力比知識更重要，因爲知識是有限的，而想象力概括着世界上的一切，推動着進步，並且是知識進化的源泉。
——[德國] 愛因斯坦
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
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爲科學家。
——[德國] 愛因斯坦
Studying knowledge needs thinking again and again, which is a learning method helping me become a scientist.
(Germany)Albert Einstein
沒有想象力的靈魂，就像沒有望遠鏡的天文臺。
——[德國] 愛因斯坦
A soul without imagination is like an observatory without the telescope.
(Germany)Albert Einstein
科學是講究實際的。科學是老老實實的學問，來不得半點虛假，需要付出艱鉅的勞動。同時，科學也需要創造，需要幻想，有幻想才能打破傳統的束縛，才能發展科學。
——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
科學的界限就像地平線一樣,你越接近它,它挪得越遠。
——[德國] 布萊希特
The scientific demarcation is like the horizon; the closer you are to it, the father it moves.
(Germany) Bertolt Brecht
沒有一種科學是同生活絕對脫離的
There is no science that is completely divorced from life
科學決對不是隻有邏輯.
——[美國]楊振寧
Science does not only have logic at all.
(America)Jonathan Salle
藝術家和科學家的價值在於沒有私慾的服務，在於爲萬人的利益服務。
——[美國]羅斯福
The value of artists and scientists lies in their selfless service for all people’s interests.
科學的本質是：問一個不恰當的問題，於是走上了通往恰當答案的路。 —jacob bronowski
that is the essence of science: ask an impertinent question, and you are on the way to the pertinent answer.
在過去人們面臨的危險是變成奴隸，而在將來危險是人類可能變成機器人。—erich fromm
the danger of the past was that men became slaves. the danger of the future is that men may become robots.
知識是一寶庫，而實踐就是開啓寶庫大門的鑰匙。—fuller
knowledge is a treasure, but practice is the key to it.
真正的金科玉律就是世上並無金科玉律。—
the golden rule is that there are no golden rules.
熱愛大自然的人內外感覺協調一致，即使進入成年後依然保持着童心。 —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.
以愛心聚在一起的十個人能夠完成一萬個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.
想象不應脫離現實。—a.n.
carlyle imagination is not to be divorced from the facts.
每個故事都可以從兩個方面看，至少兩個方面。—ann landers
whitehead there are two sides to every story least.
今天不同於昨天。我們自己也在改變。那麼，我們的著作和思想，如果想永遠不過時，怎麼能始終不改變呢? —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?