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一直在听说和宣传这个内容，大概是说做科学有三种人，前两种分别是为了生活或是享受智力挑战而进行科学研究。这两种人被天使逐出科学的殿堂也不会有问题，而第三种人则是科学殿堂的根基。这种人做科学的原因是为了逃离日常生活的无趣和干瘪，而在纯粹的精神世界中寻找心灵的休憩，自由的为一个永恒的事业工作。

现在找到了原文，贴出来内容极其出处。 

Einstein's view on Schopenhauer

Albert Einstein, from an address at a celebration of Max Planck's 60th 

birthday (1918), delivered before the Physical Society in Berlin; published 

in Mein Weltbild (Amsterdam: Querido Verlag, 1934); the following is from 

Albert Einstein, Ideas and Opinions, transl. Sonja Bargmann (New York: 

Three Rivers Press, 1954): 224-5. 

"In the temple of science are many mansions, and various indeed are they 

that dwell therein and the motives that have led them thither. Many take to 

science out of a joyful sense of superior intellectual power; science is 

their own special sport to which they look for vivid experience and the 

satisfaction of ambition; many others are to be found in the temple who 

have offered the products of their brains on this altar for purely 

utilitarian purposes. Were an angel of the Lord to come and drive all the 

people belonging to these two categories out of the temple, the assemblage 

would be seriously depleted, but there would still be some men, of both 

present and past times, left inside. Our Planck is one of them, and that is 

why we love him. 

"I am quite aware that we have just now light-heartedly expelled in 

imagination many excellent men who are largely, perhaps chiefly, 

responsible for the building of the temple of science; and in many cases 

our angel would find it a pretty ticklish job to decide. But of one thing I 

feel sure: if the types we have just expelled were the only types there 

were, the temple would never have come to be, any more than a forest can 

grow which consists of nothing but creepers. For these people any sphere of 

human activity will do, if it comes to a point; whether they become 

engineers, officers, tradesmen, or scientists depends on circumstances. Now 

let us have another look at those who have found favor with the angel. Most 

of them are somewhat odd, uncommunicative, solitary fellows, really less 

like each other, in spite of these common characteristics, than the hosts 

of the rejected. What has brought them to the temple? That is a difficult 

question and no single answer will cover it. To begin with, I believe with 

Schopenhauer that one of the strongest motives that leads men to art and science is escape from everyday life with its painful crudity and hopeless 

dreariness, from the fetters of one's own ever shifting desires. A finely 

tempered nature longs to escape from personal life into the world of 

objective perception and thought; this desire may be compared with the 

townsman's irresistible longing to escape from his noisy, cramped 

surroundings into the silence of high mountains, where the eye ranges 

freely through the still, pure air and fondly traces out the restful 

contours apparently built for eternity." 

Yours, 

WM 

They are One of the greatest scientists and One of the greatest philosophers.

They believe in Mysticism, are you too?