昨天晚上,看了一个PBS的纪录片,《Origins: Back to the Beginning》。看这些东西主要是为了练练英语。这一次却是听到了令我惊讶的话。
ROBERT WILSON,因为与同事发现了宇宙中的无线电背景辐射、支持了宇宙大爆炸学说,获得1978年的诺贝尔物理学奖。这位老先生在纪录片中说了下面一段话:
When the Nobel Prize was announced, I think probably one of the first things that I thought about was, "Do I really deserve this?" And "Should my name be on the same list with as Einstein?" Which just seemed completely wrong. Over the years I guess I've come to understand that the Nobel Prize is given for discovering something, not for being the smartest person around. So while there are much smarter people around, we did something significant and I feel comfortable with it now.