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Miscommunication 1: Genius is 1% inspiration and 99% sweat-Edison's words were used by teachers to teach us to study hard and make progress every day. Now we know that although the great inventor Edison did say that "genius is 1% inspiration and 99% sweat", our teachers and textbooks just miss the key sentence behind Edison every time:

"But that 1% inspiration is the most important, even more important than that 99% sweat".

Myth 2: There is no God who throws dice-Einstein

Einstein once said, "God doesn't throw dice." What he said was aimed at quantum physics. There is a very important uncertainty principle in quantum physics, which completely breaks the physics of "determinism", and Einstein just supports determinism, which is related to Einstein's religious belief. Einstein was not a fanatical believer, but he always believed in the existence of God (not necessarily the God of a certain religion). He thought that the concept of uncertainty in quantum mechanics was as unbelievable as God's dice toss. This is what he meant.

So, now let's see how our textbook tampered with Einstein's words-it absolutely stunned you. The textbook says: "Einstein opposes quantum physics because he thinks that quantum physicists admit that there is a God who throws dice, and he is not a real materialist."

Myth 3: China is a sleeping lion, and once it wakes up, the whole world will tremble-Napoleon

"China is a sleeping lion, and once it wakes up, the whole world will tremble." Everyone knows that this is a sentence that Napoleon said. We accept this sentence because a great foreigner has such a lofty evaluation of China. As a China person, we are deeply proud. We are also convinced that this sleeping lion has woken up, which has made the world feel the tremors it brings, because the people of China have stood up, which has surprised the world. But for a long time, we didn't know there was another sentence in the middle of this sentence:

"It's sleeping, thank God, let it sleep".

Miscommunication 4: We fought the wrong war with the wrong opponent at the wrong time and place ―― Bradley

What we used to know was that American imperialism invaded Korea, while Chinese people's Volunteer Army defeated the armed American troops at one fell swoop and won a great victory. We were the first to let the Americans sign the armistice agreement without victory, which greatly destroyed the arrogance of American imperialism and greatly enhanced the prestige of the people. Even the Americans said so, and this sentence is proof. However, what Bradley said is based on the premise:

"If we expand the war to China, then we will be involved in the wrong time and place to fight the wrong war with the wrong opponent".

Myth 5: Being is reasonable ―― Hegel's

Being is reasonable, and Hegel's "wise saying" is almost familiar to elementary school students. Many people are puzzled by it, but they don't really understand it. They think that Hegel's sentence means that everything that exists is naturally reasonable, and "existence" is a necessary and sufficient condition for "rationality" (value judgment).

As everyone knows, this misunderstanding probably comes from the fallacy of the translator of the old version of Hegel's works. If I remember correctly, the translations in Little Logic and Philosophy of Law read the year before last were:

"Everything that is rational is realistic, and everything that is realistic is rational."

Myth 6: People can make it happen, but they can't make it known–Confucius

this famous saying comes from The Analects of Confucius? In Qin Bo, "Confucius said that the people can make it impossible to know", if expressed as "Confucius said that the people can make it impossible to know", it is a famous saying to promote the political skills of fools.

The Analects of Confucius mainly records the quotations of Confucius, and there is often little connection between contexts. At that time, except for sentence breaks, other punctuation marks had not been invented. Therefore, it is possible to be misunderstood.

if this sentence is corrected to "Confucius said: people can make it; No, let me know. " It is in the same strain as another famous saying of Confucius, "There are classes of education". It also makes the image of Confucius, the first great educator in the history of China, leap from the page.