Stephen Hawking

Physicist and author Stephen Hawking possessed an uncanny ability to come up with memorable phrases and sayings that summed up his world view.Here is a selection of his famous observations.

科學家、作家霍金總能說出一些充滿智慧、意義雋永的話語，表達他的世界觀，下面摘選其中一些和大家分享。

一We are just an advanced breed of monkeys on a minor planet of a very average star.But we can understand the universe.That makes US something very special.

——我們只是一群進化了的猴子，生活在一顆最普通的星星、一個小小的行星上。但我們能探索宇宙的奧秘。這讓我們很不一般。

一Life would be tragic if it werent funny.

——缺少趣味的生活是可悲的。

——The greatest enemy of knowledge is not ignorance；it is the illusion of knowledge.

——知識最大的敵人不是無知，而是偽知識。

一l am just a child who has never grown up.1 still keep asking these“how”and“why”questions.Occasionally.1 find an answer.

——我只是一個從未長大的孩子，依然喜歡問一些“怎么樣”“為什么”的問題。偶爾，我能找到答案。

——NeVer give up work.Work gives you meaning and purpose and life is empty without it.

——永遠不要放棄工作。工作給你存在的意義和目的，沒有工作，生命是空洞的。

一For millions of years，mankind lived just like the animals. Then something happened which unleashed the powe r of ou r imagination.We learned to talk and we learned to listen.Speech has allowed the communication of ideas.enabling human beings to work together to build the impossible.MankindS greatest achievements have come about by talking，and its greatest failures by not talking.

——數(shù)百萬年以來，人類像動物一樣生活著。然后某件事情發(fā)生，解放了我們的想象力。我們學會了交談和傾聽。話語使思想得以交流，使人類得以共同努力創(chuàng)造不可能。人類最偉大的成就歸功于交談，最大的失敗歸根于不交談。

——My goal is simple.It is a complete understanding of the universe，why it is as it is and why it exists at a11.

——我的目標很簡單，就是完全理解字宙，它為什么是這樣的，又為什么會存在。

一Although l cannot move and l have to speak through a computer，in my mind l am free.

——雖然我不能動，要通過電腦才能講話，但在我心里，我是自由的。

一If aliens ever visit US，l think the outcome would be much as when Christopher Columbus first landed in America，which didnt turn out very well for the Native Americans.

——如果外星人來訪，我想其結果或許會和哥倫布首次登上美洲大陸一樣，而那對當時的美洲土著來說并非什么好事。

——We are in danger of destroying ourselves by our greed and stupidity.We cannot remain looking inwards at ourselves on a small and increasingly polluted and overcrowded planet.

——我們的貪婪和愚蠢置我們于危險之境。我們的目光不能固于我們這個污染日益嚴重、日益擁擠的小行星上。

——Remember to look up at the stars and not down at your feet.Try to make sense of what you see and wonder about what makes the universe exist.Be curious。And however difficult life may seem，there is always something you can do and succeed at.It matters that you dont just give up.

——記得抬頭仰望星空，而不是低頭垂視腳下。去理解你所看到的，思考我們的宇宙為何存在。保持好奇心。不管生活看起來多么艱難，總有一些事情是你可以做，并且可以成功的。不要放棄，這一點很重要。