Edison was curious about many things since he was a child, and he liked to try it himself until he understood the truth. When he grew up, he devoted himself to research and invention according to his interest in this field. He established a laboratory in New Jersey, and invented the electric light, telegraph, phonograph, film machine, magnetic mineral analyzer, crusher and so on for more than 2000 kinds of things in his life. Edison's strong research spirit made him make great contributions to the improvement of human lifestyle.
"Waste, the biggest waste is wasting time." Edison often said to his assistant. "Life is short, so we should try to do more with less time."
One day, Edison was working in the laboratory. He handed his assistant an empty glass bulb without a lampholder and said, "Measure the capacity of the bulb." He bowed his head to work again.
After a long time, he asked, "What's the capacity?" He didn't hear the answer, turned to see the assistant measuring the circumference and inclination of the light bulb with a soft ruler, and poured the measured figures on the table for calculation. He said, "Time, time, why does it take so much time?" Edison came over, picked up the empty light bulb, filled it with water, handed it to his assistant, and said, "Pour the water into the measuring cup and tell me its capacity at once."
The assistant read out the numbers at once.
Edison said, "How easy it is to measure. It is both accurate and time-saving. Why didn't you think of that? " ? Still counting. Isn't that a waste of time? "
The assistant's face turned red.
Edison murmured, "Life is too short, too short. Save time and do more! " "
Edison was a poor worker before he became famous. Once, his old friend met him in the street and said with concern, "look, this coat on you is very worn." You should get a new one. "
"Need it to be? Nobody knows me in new york. " Edison answered indifferently.
A few years later, Edison became a great inventor.
One day, Edison met that friend again in the street of new york. "Oh," exclaimed my friend, "why are you still wearing this old coat? This time, I have to change a new one anyway! "
"Need it to be? Everyone here already knows me. " Edison still answered casually.
2. Starting from 1896, the Curies studied radioactivity together. Prior to this, German physicist wilhelm rontgen 1845- 1923 discovered X-rays (so he won the Nobel Prize in Physics with 190 1), and becquerel discovered that uranium salts emit similar rays. Madame Curie found that thorium (Th) is also radioactive, and the radioactivity of pitchblende is stronger than any content of uranium and thorium, which cannot be explained. The curies searched hard and finally announced the discovery of radioactive element radium in 1898. They finally produced 1g pure radium chloride from 8 tons of waste pitchblende, and put forward the view that-ray (now known to be composed of electrons) is a negatively charged particle.
1906 pierre. Unfortunately, Madame Curie was killed by a carriage, but Madame Curie did not fall down because of it. She went on with her research. In 19 10, she discovered actinide Ac(Andre Debierne, 1874- 1949) from pitchblende.
19 14 When World War I broke out, Madame Curie equipped an ambulance with X-ray equipment and drove to the front. The International Red Cross appointed her as the head of the radiation rescue department. With the help of her daughters Irene Curie and Martha Klein, Madame Curie opened a course at the Radium Institute for nurses and doctors in military hospitals, teaching them how to use the new technology of X-rays. In the late 1920s, Madame Curie's health began to deteriorate. Long-term radiation exposure made her suffer from leukemia, and finally1died on July 4, 934. A few months before this, her daughter Elon and her son-in-law Joliot-Curie announced the discovery of artificial radioactivity (for which they won the 1935 Nobel Prize in chemistry).
Madame Curie was poor for most of her life, and the arduous process of extracting radium was completed under harsh conditions. The Curies refused to patent any of their discoveries, so that everyone could use their discoveries freely. They used the Nobel Prize and its prize money for future research. One of the outstanding applications of their research work is the application of radiation to treat cancer.
3. French science fiction writer Jules? Verne carefully read more than 500 kinds of books and materials in order to write Adventures on the Moon. He wrote 104 science fiction novels in his life. There are 25,000 reading notes.
Chekhov, a great Russian writer, pays great attention to accumulating life materials and writes down some things he hears, sees or thinks in his notebook at any time, which is called "life handbook". Once, Chekhov heard a friend tell a joke, and he burst into tears. He smiled and took out his Life Handbook, pleading, "Please say it again and let me write it down."
5. American writer Jack? There are strings of small pieces of paper hanging everywhere in London's rooms, whether on curtains, hangers, cabinets, bedside or mirrors. Looking carefully, it turns out that wonderful words, vivid metaphors and useful information are written on the paper. He hung pieces of paper in every corner of the room. That is, whenever and wherever you sleep, dress, shave and walk, you can see and remember. He also took a lot of pieces of paper in his pocket when he went out. He studied hard and accumulated information, and finally wrote such fascinating works as Love Life, Iron Shoes and Waves.
6. Edison had more than 1000 inventions in his life. Where did the time for these countless experiments come from? It is squeezed out from the extreme tension of often working for two or three days. Later, he kept squeezing out time, and the experimental time was never enough. Became a scientist.
7. Lu Xun disciplined himself with the motto "Time is life" and engaged in proletarian literature and art for 30 years. He regards time as his life and insists on writing.
Balzac works hard every day 16, 17 hours. Even though his arms are sore and his eyes are watery, he refuses to waste a moment.
9. Edison seized every "today" for scientific invention, worked for more than ten hours every day, and had almost no leisure except eating, sleeping and exercising. Prolonging working hours every day is equivalent to prolonging life. So when the local people celebrate their 79th birthday, they call themselves 135. Edison lived for 85 years, and there were only 1.328 invention patents registered in the US Patent Office, with an average of 1.5 days.
10. Qi Baishi, a master of Chinese painting, insists on painting every day and never stops except for physical discomfort. At the age of 85, one day, after painting four pictures in a row, he painted another one specially for yesterday, and wrote an inscription: "It was stormy yesterday, and I never painted it. Now I'll make up for it and not teach for a day. "
1 1. "If you don't teach for a day, you will be idle." Anyone who has achieved something will do it. Please read Lu Xun's The Last Year (1936
Years),1-1October (65438+1October 26th), stayed in bed for 8 months, and wrote essays and other articles.
In chapter 54, I translated three chapters of the second part of Dead Soul, made two notes, replied to more than 270 letters and gave a lot of information.
In 2000, the author read the manuscript and kept a diary when he was ill. Three days before his death, he wrote a preface for a translated novel. Six years before his death
Lu Xun has always lived near Hongkou Park in Shanghai, only a few minutes' walk from his residence to the park, but
Never played in the park. This is Lu Xun who "spends all other people's coffee time at work".
Celebrity case-tolerance
12. Edison made the first light bulb. He asked one of his disciples to test it, but he broke it! Disciples are ashamed. But when Edison made the second light bulb, he ignored other people's objections and gave it to his disciples for experiments. Edison said, "The greatest tolerance is to give him another chance!" " "
13. On the day of registration, Lincoln came to the registration office to take the exam. When he came to the report office, he found that the people in the prison were the ones he offended, and he finished the exam with a heavy burden. When he asked about offending him, the man said, "Really? I don't remember. "
"Zhouyi": "Heaven is strong, and gentlemen are constantly striving for self-improvement; The terrain is Kun, and the gentleman carries things with morality. "
Qu Yuan loved his country and people, even though he threw himself into the river.
Tao Yuanming is poor, but he doesn't want to bend over for five buckets of rice.
Gu is full of worries and insists on anti-Qing.
Zheng Chenggong went through all kinds of hardships and dangers, recovered Taiwan Province Province, greatly boosted Taiwan Province Province, and greatly boosted national prestige.
Zhu Ziqing was seriously ill and would rather die than receive American "relief food".
ideal
15. The famous mountains in Tibet are descendants.
Sima Qian obeyed his father's last wish when he was young, and was determined to write a history book that could "hide famous mountains and pass them on to future generations". In the seventh year when he started writing this history book, the case of Li Ling happened. Li Ling, the general of the Second Normal University, was defeated and surrendered because he was outnumbered in a war with Xiongnu. Sima Qian defended Li Ling, angered Emperor Wu of the Han Dynasty, was arrested and imprisoned, and suffered cruel "corruption".
After accepting the model, I tried to commit suicide because of humiliation and pain, but I can think that my ideal of writing history books has not been completed. So I stood up and endured the humiliation. I spent 18 years before and after, and finally wrote a historical record. This masterpiece has 526500 words. Creating a general history of China's biography, with rich and informative historical materials, has always been respected by people. Lu Xun once spoke highly of Historical Records in a very general language: "Historians never sing, and there is no rhyme."
16. Young Darwin will travel around the world.
Darwin, Charlie? When Robert was 9 years old, he said to his father, I think there must be many mysteries in the world that have not been discovered by people. I will travel around the world and make field trips in the future. To this end, he has been actively preparing. At Chirouze Bury School, the principal called him a "doing nothing" student with dreams.
183 1 year 12.27 Darwin finally boarded the naval research ship beagle and traveled around the world for five years, making a lot of observations and collections in animals, plants and geology. After comprehensive discussion, the concept of biological evolution was formed. 1859, he published the Origin of Species, which shocked the academic circles at that time. The theory of evolution based on natural selection not only shows that species are changeable, but also correctly explains biological adaptability, thus destroying creationism, teleology and species invariance. Later, he published books such as Animal Variation and Family Values, Human Origin and Sexual Selection. This paper systematically describes artificial selection, puts forward the theory of sexual selection and the origin of human beings, and further enriches the content of evolution theory.
Charlie. Darwin eventually became a famous British naturalist and a pioneer of evolution.
A hard-working celebrity model
17. Zuo Si was a famous writer in the Western Jin Dynasty in China. He wrote Sandu Fu, Ode to Historical Poems and so on. Copying reading method is to use copying method to enlighten thinking and improve reading and writing ability. The steps of Zuo Si's copying method are reading, copying and remembering. What runs through the whole process is "thinking", thinking in reading, thinking in writing and thinking in memory.
18. Zuo Si was born in poverty. He studied calligraphy, played the piano and read books when he was a child, but his academic performance was not good. His father was very discouraged and thought that the child had no future. Once, his father said to his friend, "The child's intelligence is too poor. He can't catch up with me! " "Zuo si was unconvinced after hearing this. From then on, he made up his mind to study hard to make up for lost time. After a few years, he began to write Sandu Fu. He read, copied and wrote, studied hard and copied countless aphorisms. He hung paper and brushes on indoor doors, walls and toilets, and took notes while reading. He also writes down the thoughts and sentences he sees or thinks at any time. After 10 years of conception, pondering and repeated revision, Zuo Si finally finished Sandu Fu.
19. Su Qin was born in an ordinary peasant family in Nathan Scott Lee, Luoyang (now Luoyang, Henan) in the Eastern Zhou Dynasty. Su Qin was the youngest of the five brothers, so Zhangzi and his brothers Su Dai, Su Li, Soapy and Su Zhe were all celebrities at that time. Su Qin's exact date of birth is not available today. Historical records? "Yan Shijia" contains: "Twenty-eight years (before 334), Su Qin came to see me." According to the silk book, this statement is wrong. "Twenty-two Silk Books" says: When Wei was attacked, Chu Wei Weng (Yong) was stoned, and Qin defeated the beggar. "And he said," now Qin Li is outside the door ",apparently for Su Qin's fledgling, lobbying Chen Ke's conversation. According to the first 3 12 years of "Qin defeated Qu Gai", it is assumed that young Su Qin first entered the political arena around the age of 20, and it is estimated that he was born around 332.
At that time, it was in the middle of the Warring States period, and people from all walks of life lobbied the princes one after another, earning both fame and fortune in one breath, becoming a minister in white, governing the country with power, and making a name for themselves. Su Qin envied this and his brother's influence on him. I have been determined to devote myself to this since I was a child. He went to the state of Qi alone, where he studied with a generation of vertical and horizontal master, Mr. Guigu, to learn vertical and horizontal skills.
After finishing his studies, Su Qin lobbied Zhou and Qin successively. Zhao and other countries, but all useless, turned back to the wall and felt very ashamed. When Su Qin returned home, his wife and sister-in-law looked down on him and mocked him for not doing business properly and not doing business with farmers. They think it's a pipe dream to confuse fame with his talent. Hearing this, Su Qin not only didn't lose heart, but kept indoors and made a determined effort to study. He studied Yin Fu and Chuai Qing He day and night, trying to figure out how to impress people. Reading in the middle of the night, when you are sleepy, you "stab him with a bow and cone until you bleed to the foot" (Qin Ce Yi). This spirit of hard study has been told by people through the ages. Su Qin, who was covered with thorns, and Sun Jing, who hung on his head, were all included in the Miyake classic and became models eager to read. Of course, Su Qin studied for fame and fortune, but he was determined to make progress. The enterprising spirit of learning is still worth promoting.
Kung fu rewards those who help him. In recent years, his knowledge has been greatly improved, and his kung fu of expressing feelings and feelings has also improved a lot. Su Qin once again embarked on the journey of lobbying other countries.
20. Zhao Guanghan was born in Wuli County, Zhuo Jun, Western Han Dynasty. He used to be the magistrate of Yingchuan county, such as Shou Jing and Jing Jing. Zhao Guanghan's reign as satrap in Yingchuan County was the best stage in his early days. He is not afraid of power, smart and capable. In his first few months in office, he did two major things: one was to crack down on the powerful family forces and ease social contradictions; The second is to strengthen local management and change local bad atmosphere. His reputation spread from this, and it is his nature to be good at handling government affairs in this Hanshu. When Zhao Guanghan served as Zhao Yin in Beijing, he showed a high sense of responsibility and often stayed up late to handle various official duties. And good at thinking, pay attention to efficiency. During its governance, the politics of Jingzhao area was clear and clear, which was praised by both officials and people. However, Jing's duty is to manage the capital, because under the emperor's feet, it is easy to offend royalty and dignitaries in daily handling of government affairs. Therefore, although Zhao Guanghan was a leader among city managers, he was finally beheaded. During his tenure in Beijing, Zhao Guanghan was honest and won the praise of the people.
2 1. Ba Huang (? -5 1 BC), male, born in Yangxia, Huaiyang, Western Han Dynasty (now Taikang, Henan Province). Historian Ban Gu commented: "Since the establishment of the Han Dynasty, the number of officials governing the people has been the first." When Ba Huang was still young, he made up his mind to be a good official. Ren Taishou's political achievements in Yingchuan County are the most outstanding. Previously, Yingchuan County was a place where powerful landlords unified one side and the people were displaced. After he took office, he took drastic measures, bite the hand that feeds him, resettle refugees, attach importance to farming and mulberry, and educate them. After several years of careful management, Yingchuan has a peaceful scene of peace and stability, clear management and production development. Therefore, the emperor wrote a letter praising Ba Huang as a good official.
22. Xu Yougong? -702), whose real name is Xu, was born in Chang 'an, Tang Dynasty, and was the most famous official in the Tang Dynasty who specialized in handling cases. In ancient times, most official positions were mixed with administration and justice, and only the imperial court had special judges, but their position in the bureaucratic system was extremely low, so it was difficult to make a difference. Although Xu Yougong served as a full-time trial judge for a long time, he went down in history because he dared to strictly abide by the law and hit his face, rehabilitated hundreds of unjust cases and saved more than 10,000 lives. Xu Yougong has served as a judicial officer in Zhou Pu, a criminal officer in the Ministry of Justice (Dali Temple), a foreign minister in Qiu Guan (Ministry of Justice) and a chief criminal doctor in Shao Qing. When Xu Yougong was an official, it was the Wu and Zhou Dynasties. At that time, there was an insurrection by marquis Wu and a trap set by cruel officials, so it was not easy to enforce the law correctly. Because Xu Yougong handled six or seven hundred major cases before and after, he saved tens of thousands of lives, inevitably offended cruel officials and treacherous court officials, and was frequently impeached and tried. However, in the end, he was charged with the death penalty three times, pardoned three times, dismissed twice and returned twice. In spite of this, he remained firm, did not flatter, and devoted himself to law enforcement. Because of this, Xu became a rare full-time "judge" in history and was praised as "a good official since ancient times" by people at that time.