For some people, miracles serve as evidence of God’s existence. For Einstein it was the absence of miracles that reflected divine providence. The fact that the cosmos is comprehensible, that it follows laws, is worthy of awe. This is the defining quality of a “God who reveals himself in the harmony of all that exists.”
Creativity required being willing not to conform.
创造力需要的是刻意不去遵从。
The development of science and of the creative activities of the spirit requires a freedom that consists in the independence of thought from the restrictions of authoritarian and social prejudice.
科学以及其它创造性精神活动的发展需要的是自由,它包含在思想的独立性中,并不受权威和社会偏见的约束。
她又用铅笔在一张纸来开始算。数学符号又开始跳跃了,啊,她感到自己越过了朗道势垒,要成为真正的物理学家了。会议室的光落在桌子上,那儿忽然变得像打印出来的paper 那样洁白工整,她可以一直看到paper上的字迹。SCI期刊的logo,劲道的Abstract和 in troduction。更妙的是这篇paper的一作者,赫然署着自己的名字!看上去那么诱惑,一直向这个穷苦的小女孩走来。这时候,波函数又坍缩了,一切都消失了,只剩下蓝皮的砖头一样厚的两卷曾谨言。