在我心里，我是自由的

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.

科学家、作家霍金总能说出一些充满智慧、意义隽永的话语，表达他的世界观，下面摘选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.

——我们只是一群进化了的猴子，生活在一颗最普通的星星、一个小小的行星上。但我们能探索宇宙的奥秘。这让我们很不一般。

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.

——知识最大的敌人不是无知，而是伪知识。

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.

——我只是一个从未长大的孩子，依然喜欢问一些“怎么样”“为什么”的问题。偶尔，我能找到答案。

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

——永远不要放弃工作。工作给你存在的意义和目的，没有工作，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.

——數百万年以来，人类像动物一样生活着。然后某件事情发生，解放了我们的想象力。我们学会了交谈和倾听。话语使思想得以交流，使人类得以共同努力创造不可能。人类最伟大的成就归功于交谈，最大的失败归根于不交谈。

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

——我的目标很简单，就是完全理解字宙，它为什么是这样的，又为什么会存在。

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

——虽然我不能动，要通过电脑才能讲话，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.

——如果外星人来访，我想其结果或许会和哥伦布首次登上美洲大陆一样，而那对当时的美洲土著来说并非什么好事。

——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.

——我们的贪婪和愚蠢置我们于危险之境。我们的目光不能固于我们这个污染日益严重、日益拥挤的小行星上。

——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.

——记得抬头仰望星空，而不是低头垂视脚下。去理解你所看到的，思考我们的宇宙为何存在。保持好奇心。不管生活看起来多么艰难，总有一些事情是你可以做，并且可以成功的。不要放弃，这一点很重要。