"I don't know what kind of person I am in the eyes of others; But in my own opinion, I am like a child playing by the sea. From time to time, I am complacent about finding a pebble smoother than usual or a shell more beautiful than usual, but I have not found the vast ocean of truth in front of me. "
"If I see farther than others, it is because I stand on the shoulders of giants."
"Enthusiasm without knowledge is like adventure in the dark."
"You should regard reputation as a symbol of your highest personality."
"I can calculate the orbit of celestial bodies, but I can't calculate the greed of human nature."
Newton's story:
A fascination with scientific research
Newton was obsessed with scientific research to the point of obsession. It is said that Newton once boiled an egg. He works while reading. He stupidly threw a pocket watch into the pot. When the water boiled, he lifted the lid and realized that he had cooked the pocket watch as an egg by mistake. On another occasion, a visiting guest asked him to evaluate a prism. Newton was immediately attracted by this prism that can be used for scientific research and replied without hesitation: "This is priceless!" " "The guest saw Newton salivating at the prism and offered to sell it to him, deliberately asking a high price. Newton immediately bought it with joy. When the housekeeper learned that, she said angrily, "Well, you idiot, you just have to fold the price according to the weight of the cup!" " "Newton once invited a friend to dinner, prepared for dinner, and went into the research room. My friend saw it, ate it, and left without saying goodbye. When Newton came out, he found that there was only leftovers on the table, thinking that he had eaten them, so he went back to continue his research and experiment. Newton was absorbed in telling a good story.
The story of Einstein (Germany)
In the face of so many excellent people, maybe you will feel ashamed and say, "How can I be so stupid?" "I'm too ordinary to be a great man!" Next, I'm going to tell you the story of a man whose teachers and principals think he is stupid.
This man is Albert Einstein. This stupid student, who is regarded by the headmaster as "omnipotent", has become the founder and founder of modern physics through hard work, and is also the most outstanding physicist in modern times.
1879 March 14 A baby was born in a small town called Ulm in Germany. His parents gave him a promising name: Albert Einstein. Looking at his lovely appearance, his parents pinned all their hopes on him. However, it didn't take long for parents to be disappointed: other children began to learn to speak, and three-year-old Einstein only learned English by "babbling". Later, Einstein's sister Maga, two years younger than him, was able to talk to her neighbors. Einstein still faltered when he spoke, and his preface didn't match the latter ... Looking at Einstein, who was slow to move, her parents began to worry. They are worried that his intelligence will be less than that of ordinary people. It was not until 10 that his parents sent him to school. However, at school, Einstein was laughed at by teachers and classmates, and everyone called him a "stupid guy". The school requires students to attend classes according to military orders. Einstein was often reprimanded and punished by his teacher because of his slow response. A teacher even pointed at his nose and scolded, "This damn thing is so stupid that I can't keep up with any class!" "
In a craft class, the teacher picked out a badly made wooden stool from the students' works and said to everyone, "I think there may be no worse stool in the world!" " "In the roar of laughter, Einstein blushed and stood up and said," I think this kind of stool exists! " As he spoke, he took out two stools from his desk, and said, "I've done it twice before, and I'll give it to you for the third time. Although not good enough, it is much better than these two! " Einstein himself was surprised to say so many words in one breath. The teacher was even more dumbfounded, sitting there and not knowing what to say.
With irony and insult, Einstein grew up and entered the Louis Polder Middle School in Munich. In middle school, he fell in love with math classes, but he was not interested in other classes that were divorced from reality and life. Lonely, he began to look for sustenance in books and spiritual strength. In this way, Einstein met Archimedes, Newton, Descartes, Goethe and Mozart in the book ... Books and knowledge opened up a broader space for him. The field of vision was broadened, and Einstein had more problems to think about in his mind.
One day, he said to his uncle who often tutored him in mathematics, "If I run forward at the speed of light in a vacuum, can I see electromagnetic waves vibrating in space?" My uncle stared at him with strange eyes for a long time, with both approval and concern in his eyes. Because he knew Einstein's question was unusual and would cause unexpected shock. Since then, Einstein has been plagued by this problem. 1In the autumn of 895, Einstein decided to apply to the University of Zurich, Switzerland after careful consideration. However, he failed. He failed in foreign languages. After failing in the exam, he didn't get discouraged and took part in a middle school tutorial. A year later, he got a certificate of middle school tuition and was admitted to Zurich University of Technology. By this time, he was already preparing for his future. He devoted all his energy to extracurricular reading and laboratory. The professors were very dissatisfied and angry when they saw him reading books that had nothing to do with his studies and doing experiments that had nothing to do with his exam results. They think he has nothing to do.
When Einstein graduated from university, he was caught in the economic crisis. Because he is of Jewish descent, it doesn't matter, he has no money, so he has to be unemployed at home. In order to make a living, he had to post advertisements everywhere and earn 3 francs an hour by teaching physics. This period of unemployment helped Einstein a lot. In the process of teaching, he reflected on traditional physics, which contributed to his violent impact on traditional academic views. After five weeks of intense and exciting struggle, Einstein wrote a 9000-word paper on electrodynamics of moving objects, and the special theory of relativity was born. It can be said that this is a decisive great declaration in the history of physics and another milestone in physics.
Although there are still many people who object to this, and even some people publish critical articles in newspapers, Einstein has gained the attention of society and academia after all. In a short time, 15 universities awarded him a doctorate certificate, and famous universities in France, Germany, the United States, Poland and many other countries also wanted to hire him as a professor. Einstein, who was called a "fool" and a "fool" and thought that he could not become a talent, eventually became the most outstanding intellectual recognized by the whole world. From "Ugly Goose" to "White Swan", what does this mean?
I think Einstein's words are the best answer. When many young people pestered him to tell him the secret of success, he wrote a formula: A=x+y+z, and explained: "A stands for success, X stands for diligence, Y stands for correct method, and then Z stands for you to talk less." For many years, Einstein's magical success equation has been praised by people. From the course of Einstein's struggle, it is not difficult to see that it is diligence, correct methods and less empty talk that have turned Einstein from a clumsy brain into a giant.
It can be seen that it is not terrible that a person is not smart. The terrible thing is to vent his anger first. As long as you are willing to work hard for your goal and cooperate with the right method, you will be rewarded by the goddess of success. Many people who succeed in their careers may not be able to show their sharp edge in their childhood and adolescence. On the contrary, they are too ordinary, even dull and stupid, and are often laughed at and ridiculed by people around them. If you lose heart because you are stupid and stop working hard, isn't that killing your potential talents and abilities in the cradle?
In fact, everyone's talent is different, and everyone will find their own constellation in the long river of life. If you feel stupid, it's because you haven't found your own constellation yet. Just as Einstein was indifferent to other things, but he was particularly fond of physics and mathematics, when you find your own constellation, you will surely radiate extraordinary brilliance.
Try it and find your place as soon as possible.
The famous Einstein
▲ Only by dedicating themselves to society can people find the meaning of life that is short and full of risks.
▲ What I learned in a big circle, but there are so many blanks outside the circle, which means ignorance to me. This shows that there are still many things I don't understand.
▲ I never think about the future, it comes too fast.
▲ When you are sixty years old, you will cherish every hour at your disposal.
▲ How many mysteries remain in the world and the universe ... Let's hurry up and work!
▲ Everyone has an ideal, and this ideal determines the direction in which he tries to judge. In this sense, I have never regarded ease and pleasure as the purpose of life itself-this foundation, which I call the ideal of pigsty. Illuminate my path, constantly give me new courage, let me face up to the ideal of life happily, that is, truth, goodness and beauty.
▲ Ambition or simple sense of responsibility will not produce anything of real value. Only love and dedication to human beings and objective things can produce truly valuable things.
▲ True happiness is optimism about life, happiness about work and enthusiasm for career.
▲ People who are reckless about the truth in small matters are also distrustful of big things.
▲ For a person who has struggled all his life to discover a little truth, if he can see with his own eyes that others really understand and like his works, then he will get the best return.
▲ Never regard learning as a task, but an enviable opportunity. Study for your own happiness and for the benefit of the society where you will work in the future.
▲ Learning or planting trees, flowering in spring and bearing fruit in autumn.
▲ Find out what can lead you to the depths in the books you read, and throw away everything else, that is, throw away everything that goes beyond your mind and tempts you to deviate from the main points.
▲ Between genius and diligence, I chose diligence without hesitation. It is the midwife of almost all achievements in the world.
▲ Knowledge cannot only come from experience, but only from the comparison of rational discovery and observed facts.
▲ Spend time reading other people's articles. You can easily improve yourself by borrowing the hard work of others.
▲ The goal of the school should be to cultivate people with independent actions and independent thinking.
▲ Interest is the best teacher.
▲ Mozart never composed music for eternity, but because of this, many of his works are eternal.
▲ I absolutely believe that in this world, wealth can never make human progress.
Qian Xuesen's famous words (China)
Personally, I'm just a drop in the ocean. What is truly great is the party, the people and our great country.
As a scientist in China, I serve the people. If the people are finally satisfied with all the work I have done in my life, that is the highest reward.
Do scientists only need data and formulas? People who engage in science also need inspiration, and many of my inspirations are realized from art.
I think today's science and technology is not only natural science and engineering technology, but the whole knowledge system that people know and transform the objective world, and the highest summary of this system is Marxist philosophy.
We can't follow the trend. This is not the spirit of science. The most important thing in scientific spirit is innovation.
I am a scientist, not a big official. I don't want the treatment of those officials.
It is a big problem that China University always fails to produce outstanding talents.
It is often the last key that opens the door of the temple. Don't lose heart. As long as you persevere, there will be results in the end.
The correct result comes from a lot of mistakes; Without a lot of mistakes, we will not be able to climb to the top of the final correct result.
"Nothing is final! ! ! "(No knowledge is final)
"Knowledge is infinite" (endless learning).
Learning in colleges and universities is a period of laying a foundation, and the focus should be on learning basic courses well.
Never stick to your own opinions in scientific work. If you don't have the courage to admit your mistake, you will suffer a big loss.
Without Mao Zedong Thought and public ownership, China would be finished.
The story of Qian Xuesen
Qian Xuesen's touching deeds
China science superstar Qian Xuesen died in Beijing on the morning of June 3 1 at the age of 98. Qian Xuesen is a pioneer and outstanding representative of China's space science and technology, and is known as "the father of China's space flight" and "the king of rockets". The talented Qian Xuesen was well-known in the world when he studied in the United States in the last century. After he broke through many obstacles and left the United States for home, he established a profound friendship with Mao Zedong and other revolutionaries of the older generation. He is indifferent to his reputation and doesn't want foreign honorary titles. He resigned as an academician. He and his wife Jiang Ying were childhood friends. During their five years under house arrest in the United States, they shared their feelings and used music to relieve loneliness and boredom. ...
The whole process of returning to China
Zhou Enlai used diplomacy skillfully.
Qian Xuesen 1935 went to study in the United States. After ten years of unremitting efforts, he became a world-class rocket expert at that time. It is famous for its amazing rocket theory that "a rocket with a speed of 10,000 kilometers per hour has become possible". Professor of California Institute of Technology and his tutor Feng during World War II? Carmen participated in the top secret "Manhattan Project" of the United States at that time-the research and development of missile nuclear weapons, and was one of the few outstanding talents in the United States.
When the news of People's Republic of China (PRC)'s proclamation reached the United States, Qian Xuesen and his wife Jiang Ying could not restrain their inner joy and discussed returning to the motherland as soon as possible. However, because he was suspected to be a * * * person and refused to expose his friends, Qian Xuesen was suddenly disqualified from participating in confidential work by the US military department. Qian Xuesen was very angry. He said: "I would rather go back to my hometown in China than stay in the United States to be suspected!" Later, Qian Xuesen applied to the United States to return to China. What he never expected was that his long-cherished wish to return to China turned into a disaster.
After hearing the news that Qian Xuesen was going back to China, the US Deputy Navy Secretary said, "He knows all the core secrets of the US missile program. One Qian Xuesen is worth five marines. I'd rather shoot this guy than let him go back to Red China! " Since then, the political persecution of Qian Xuesen and his wife by the US government has followed. The Immigration Bureau copied Qian Xuesen's home and locked him up on Temina Island 14 days, which greatly devastated his body and mind. It was not until California Institute of Technology sent a huge bail of 15000 dollars that Qian Xuesen was able to go home. Later, the customs confiscated his luggage, including 800 kilograms of books and notebooks. Insist that there are confidential materials in it.
The news that Qian Xuesen was persecuted and framed in the United States quickly returned to China, and New China was shocked. Domestic scientific circles support Qian Xuesen through various channels, and the CPC Central Committee is also extremely concerned about Qian Xuesen's situation in the United States. The new China administration issued a public statement condemning the US government for imprisoning Qian Xuesen against his will.
1in April, 954, Zhou Enlai, head of the China delegation attending the meeting in Geneva, thought that a group of overseas students and scientists in China were detained in the United States, so he instructed that since the Americans invited British diplomats to dredge relations with us, we should seize this opportunity and open up new channels of contact. In the negotiation, we should first contact Qian Xuesen, a scientist studying in the United States in China, and other detained issues. In order to seize the initiative, Zhou Enlai instructed Huang Hua, spokesman of the China delegation, to make a speech, demanding that the US government return the detained China citizens and students, and hinted that China was willing to negotiate directly with the United States on the issue of detaining American personnel. In this case, the US government has to agree to direct negotiations with the representative of China.
On August 1955 and 1 day, at the fifth Sino-US ambassadorial talks held in Geneva, China and the United States finally reached an important agreement on the return of civilians from the two countries. The next day, Qian Xuesen received a notice from the Immigration Bureau that his control order had been revoked and he was free to leave the country. 1955 September 17, Qian Xuesen boarded the "President of Cleveland" with his wife Jiang Ying and a pair of young children and embarked on a journey back home.
For Qian Xuesen's departure, his mentor and scientist Feng? Carmen said with emotion: "The United States gave Qian Xuesen, the greatest genius and the best rocket expert in the field of rocket technology, to Red China!" When he left, the tutor said affectionately to Qian Xuesen, "You have surpassed me academically now. Go back to your motherland and work. Science has no boundaries. "
Thanks to the return of a group of outstanding scientists such as Qian Xuesen, the launch time of China's missiles and atomic bombs was at least 20 years ahead of schedule. Premier Zhou said meaningfully in the 1950s: "Although the Sino-US ambassadorial talks have not achieved substantive results, we have made concrete and constructive contacts on the issue of expatriates in the two countries after all, and we are going back to a Qian Xuesen. Only in this case, the talks are worthwhile and valuable. "