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星期四, 十月 08, 2009
爱因斯坦评价的是军队而不是阅兵
科学网王鸿飞的博客中，引用了一段引自英文版的，据称是爱因斯坦对阅兵的评价：
That a man can take pleasure in marching in formation to the strains of a band is enough to make me despise him. He has only been given his big brain by mistake; a backbone was all he needed. The plague-spot of civilization ought to be abolished with all possible speed. Heroism by order, senseless violence and all the pestilent nonsense that goes by the name of patriotism - how I hate them!
－Albert Einstein, The World as I See It (1931)
郝炘的翻译是：
一个能从随着军乐旋律排方阵齐步走中获得快乐的人，单凭这一点就足以让我鄙视他。他错长了一个大脑;一根脊梁骨就足够他用了。人类文明的这个瘟疫斑应该以尽可能的速度消除掉。奉命的英雄行为、毫无意义的暴力行为、和所有爱国主义名义下的胡说八道--我真恨这些东西！
美国物理学会网站说这是爱因斯坦1931年在"Forum and Century"，vol. 84上发表的。查了一记德文《我的世界蓝图》（Mein...