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Once,
Einstein gave a lecture in a university. After his speech, the audience started
asking questions.
A girl
asked, "Do you think you're a giant of science?" Einstein said with a smile,
"A giant is a person who is tall in height. You see I'm so small, how can
I be a giant? Maybe I see a bit farther, only because I stand higher!"Then a boy asked, "You mentioned you stand higher than
the others. It reminds me that you had a talk with a lady on the top of the
Alps (阿尔卑斯山).I don't want to ask what you talked, but I
want to know whether you realised you have been a top in the history of science
when you stood on the top." Looking at the boy carefully, Einstein
replied, "Well, my height cannot become a top. And there is no top that no
one can get to, so we don't want to be a top, but we want to be a person to
climb the top!"
Then he
took up a piece of chalk and wrote on the blackboard, "Standing on the
top, you are not tall, but even smaller!"Then he said, "Though I stand tall, in the eyes of the
world I'm still small! Finally, I can tell you a sentence, which was the last
one I told the lady on the top of the Alps, 'Any top can be reached, for there
is no giant in the world but the one who stands higher!'"A
storm of applause(掌声) sounded. The lady who listened to
Einstein's instruction on the Alps that year was no other than Madam Curie!