John Wheeler 的師生相互學習 (Ben Chen)

Ben Chen

John A. Wheeler (—2008）和Hans Bethe(—2005)是物理界，活到21世紀的最後兩位哥本哈根學派的巨匠。

超越哲學、近乎玄學的思維。

“So why is the universe as big as it is? Because we are here!”

Wheeler believed that the real reason universities have students is to educate the professors. But to be educated by the students, a professor had to ask good questions. “You try out your questions on the students”, he wrote, “If there are questions that the students get interested in, then they start to tell you new things and keep you asking more new questions. Pretty soon you have learned a great deal.”

John Wheeler’s Participatory Universe

Image: The New York TimesJohn Archibald Wheeler (1911-2008) was a scientist-philosopher who introduced the concept of wormholes and coined the term “black

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談一些校訓： "multitudo sapientium sanitas orbis" (Latin)*

林從一教授"睡前"集10所加拿大的校訓。
現在是晨間，我可以進一步考古：

Wikipedia 的各校簡介都有"motto"



https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/University_of_Victoria
University of Victoria  1963

Motto	"יְהִי אוֹר" (Hebrew) "multitudo sapientium sanitas orbis" (Latin)*
Motto in English	"Let there be light" "A multitude of the wise is the health of the world"

* From the Vulgate, Wisdom of Solomon 6:24. Motto of the University of Victoria.

“But the multitude of the wise is the welfare of the world: and a wise king is the upholding of the people.” 

King James Version (KJV)

Wisdom of Solomon 6:24 Context

21If your delight be then in thrones and sceptres, O ye kings of the people, honour wisdom, that ye may reign for evermore. 22As for wisdom, what she is, and how she came up, I will tell you, and will not hide mysteries from you: but will seek her out from the beginning of her nativity, and bring the knowledge of her into light, and will not pass over the truth. 23Neither will I go with consuming envy; for such a man shall have no fellowship with wisdom. 24But the multitude of the wise is the welfare of the world: and a wise king is the upholding of the people. 25Receive therefore instruction through my words, and it shall do you good.

【思高本聖經 智慧】 6:24
²⁶智慧人眾多，世界纔有救；君王明達，民生纔安定。


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林從一

加拿大大學校訓

睡覺前，順手翻了10所加拿大大學校訓，加拿大人很隨和，所以就很隨和地翻譯。　

1. McGill University 麥吉爾大學
拉丁文：Grandescunt Aucta Labore
英譯：By work, all things increase and grow
中譯：天道酬勤

2.Totonto University 多倫多大學
拉丁文：Velut arbor aevo
英譯：As a tree through the ages
中譯：十年樹木、百年樹人

3.UBC 英屬哥倫比亞大學
拉丁文：Tuum est
英譯：A place of mind
中譯：這是個可以好好想一想的地方
通靈之地
靈通之地

4.Queen’s University 皇后大學
拉丁文：Sapientia et Doctrina Stabilitas
英譯：Wisdom and knowledge shall be the stability of thy times
中譯：智慧與知識使你處亂不驚

5.SFU 西蒙菲莎大學
法語：Nous sommes prêts
英譯：Engaging The World
中譯：入世

6.University of Victoria 維多利亞大學
英文：Let there be light
中譯：打破黑暗、放光芒
英文：A multitude of the wise is the health of the world
中譯：多元智慧讓世界健康

7. University of Saskatchewan 薩斯卡徹溫省大學
拉丁文：Deo et Patriae
英譯：For god and country
中譯：為了神和國家

8.University of Guelph 圭爾夫大學
英文：Changing Lives, Improving Life
中譯：改變自己才能過好日子

9.York University 約克大學
拉丁文：Tentanda via
英文：The way must be tried
中譯：這條路無論如何你都要試試

10. University of Manitoba 曼尼托巴大學
拉丁文：Pueris his dedit Deus scientiam
英譯：And to these children God gave knowledge
中譯：來這所大學的孩子，老天爺幫他們開了眼