Which celebrities like to ask why when they are young?

Galileo, Edison, Confucius, Shen Kuo, Wang Chonghui, Yang Xiaolou, Hu Shi and Guo Moruo.

1 year-old, Galileo 17-year-old, admitted to the University of Pisa as a medical major. He likes asking questions and won't stop until he gets to the bottom of it.

Once in class, Professor Biro gave a lecture on embryology. He said: "Whether a mother gives birth to a boy or a girl is determined by her father's strength. If her father is strong, her mother will have a boy; If the father is weak, the mother will have a daughter. "

As soon as Professor Biro's voice dropped, Galileo raised his hand and said, "Teacher, I have a question."

Professor Biro said unhappily, "You ask too many questions! You are a student. Listen carefully to the teacher in class, take more notes, don't think about it, it's easy to ask questions, which will affect students' study! " "This is not wishful thinking, also is not good to ask. My neighbor, the man is very strong, but his wife has given birth to five daughters in a row. This is just the opposite of what the teacher said. How do you explain this? "Galileo was not intimidated by Professor Biro and continued to ask questions.

"I said it according to Aristotle, a famous ancient Greek scholar, and it can't be wrong!" Professor Biro moved out the theoretical basis and tried to convince him.

Galileo went on to say, "Is it necessary for Aristotle to insist that what he said is true? Science must conform to the facts, otherwise it is not real science. " Professor Biro was stumped by this question.

Later Galileo was criticized by the school, but his spirit of persistence, knowledge and pursuit of truth has not changed at all. Because of this, he finally became a generation of science masters.

Galileo galilei (1564 ~ 1642) is an Italian physicist, mathematician and astronomer. He discovered the law of swing timing, put forward the law of free fall, invented the pycnometer, the air thermometer and the telescope, which proved that Heliocentrism of Copernicus was correct. Cang Li slightly has been versatile since childhood. He can draw and play the piano, and he likes math very much. He can make all kinds of electric toys. He could have been a great painter or musician. However, he loves science more. His heart is full of all kinds of questions. He always asks his father why smoke rises. Why does water fluctuate? Why does the church have to build a spire and a big bottom? When he grew up, he had more problems. He studied Aristotle's works deeply and often lost in thought. He thinks that many of Aristotle's theories have not been proved. Why should they be regarded as absolute truth? Many of the reasons Galileo put forward in his youth were later answered by himself. In Galileo's hometown of Pisa, there is a magnificent cathedral. One afternoon, Galileo came here to visit. A steward began to fill an oil lamp, hung it on the ceiling of the church and let it swing back and forth in the space at will. Galileo saw that the chandelier began to swing a big arc, and the arc became smaller. The speed of swinging also slowed down. It seems to him that the rhythm of the chain is very regular. Although the distance of going back and forth is getting smaller and smaller, the time of going back and forth for the chandelier seems to be the same. Without a clock, he held his pulse with his right hand and silently counted the number of times the chandelier swung. He found that the time required for each swing of the chandelier was really the same. Galileo's heart suddenly lit up, and he thought, "Aristotle said that swinging requires a short arc." He went home to find materials and made several pendulums. He hung the short pendulum in the house and the long pendulum in the tree, and then accurately calculated the time required for the pendulum to move from one end of the arc to the other. The experimental results show that the swinging time of the pendulum is determined by the length of the rope, which has nothing to do with the weight and amplitude of the pendulum. But Galileo still did not understand. Because Aristotle said that when an object falls from a height, its speed is determined by its weight. Why does the pendulum drop to the lowest point at the same time as long as the rope length is the same, regardless of the weight? He decided to go to the Leaning Tower of Pisa to do the next experiment. He invented a small mechanical device, so that the objects in the box can fall at the same time at the press of a button. On the day of the experiment, he asked the students to stand in the windows on the second, third and fifth floors and at the top of the tower with boxes. He signaled that the students on the second floor opened the box and put an iron ball weighing 1 kg and an iron ball weighing1kg.

2. Edison's father is a small farmer in Mylan, who owns an orchard and has a well-off family. 1847 February, Edison was born. Edison was not only quiet, but also often lost in thought alone. He will stare at something for a long time, motionless and silent. I want to know what's going on in my mind. He will stare at the slowly floating and changing white clouds in the sky for a long time. He will stare at the seven-color arc rainbow in the sky after the rain for a long time. He would stare at the flickering flames in the stove for a long time. He will stare at the birds jumping between the treetops for a long time ... Sometimes, the sky suddenly becomes overcast, the wind suddenly rises, the thunder becomes lower and lower, and the lightning becomes denser and denser. Children who play together will disperse and run home quickly; Families are also busy closing chickens and ducks, packing things outside the house and closing windows; Edison, on the other hand, was staring at the lightning that cut through the sky, listening to the rolling thunder and thinking, what's the matter? Why does it thunder and lightning before it rains? How did thunder and lightning come out? Edison was a thoughtful and curious child since he was a child.

In the Spring and Autumn Period, Confucius was honored as a "saint". He has 2000 disciples, and everyone asks him for knowledge. His Analects of Confucius has been handed down from generation to generation for thousands of years.

Confucius is knowledgeable, but he still asks for advice modestly. On one occasion, he went to the ancestral temple to worship his ancestors. As soon as I entered the ancestral temple, I felt strange and asked others questions. Someone laughed: "Confucius has outstanding knowledge, so why ask?" Confucius said, "Always ask questions. What's wrong? " His disciples asked him, "Why did you call Kong Wen Zi after Kong died?" Confucius said, "You are smart and eager to learn, and you are not ashamed to ask questions. It is worthy of being a writer." Disciple thought: "Teachers often ask others for advice, and they are not ashamed!" "

Learn from everyone with an open mind, including those below yourself. This is called "asking questions without shame"

4. Shen Kuo (A.D. 103 1 ~ 1095) was born in Qiantang County, Hangzhou (now Hangzhou, Zhejiang), Han nationality, a scientist and politician in the Northern Song Dynasty. 1 year-old, moved south to Wuyishan and Jianyang in Fujian. After living in seclusion in Youxi, Fujian. In the eighth year of Injong Jiayou (AD 1063), he was a scholar. In the fifth year of Xining (A.D. 1072), he was promoted to supervisor of Tiansi, and went to Zhejiang to inspect water conservancy and officers the following year. Xining was destroyed in the eighth year (AD 1075). Rectify Shaanxi salt policy. Later, I learned that Yanzhou (now Yan 'an, Shaanxi) had strengthened its defense against Xixia. In the fifth year of Yuanfeng (1082), Song Jun was defeated by Xixia in the battle of Yongle City and was demoted. In his later years, he wrote a notebook masterpiece "Talking about Meng Xi" in Meng Xi Park, Zhenjiang. Shen Kuo's scientific achievements are manifold. He devoted himself to astronomy and advocated a new calendar. The existence of magnetic declination was discovered more than 400 years before Europe. The principle of concave mirror imaging is expounded. He also studied the law of * * * vibration. In mathematics, he founded "gap product" (second-order arithmetic progression summation method) and "meeting circle" (knowing the diameter of the circle and the height of the bow, finding the chord and arc length of the bow). In geology, he studied the formation of alluvial plain and water erosion, and put forward the name of oil for the first time. In medicine, he studied the formation of alluvial plains and water erosion. He recorded the scientific development and production technology at that time, such as Bi Sheng's invention of movable type printing and metal smelting methods. Shen Kuo has a strong interest in astronomy and geography since he was a child, and he is diligent and studious. As a teenager, he lived in Quanzhou, Fujian for many years, and some of his experiences at that time were included in Meng Qian's pen talk. In astronomy, Shen Kuo also made great achievements, which he once did. A landscape table showing the shadow of the sun, etc. In order to measure the exact position of Polaris, he observed the position of Polaris with an armillary sphere every day for three months, and drew the position of Polaris on the first night, midnight and the second night respectively. After careful study, he finally came to the conclusion that Polaris is three degrees away from the North Pole. This scientific basis is recorded in detail in Meng Qian Bi Tan, including Shen Kuo's mathematics. He began to develop arithmetic series from "Nine Chapters of Arithmetic" and created a new advanced summation method-notch series. In geometry, he invented the rounding method, that is, the method of finding the bottom and arc of the bow from the diameter and height of the known circle. Therefore, the Japanese mathematician Masao Mishima once gave Shen Kuo a very high evaluation. (Excerpted from the second issue of Applied Writing 1987,

5. Wang Chonghui

When Wang Chonghui, a jurist, was in London, he once attended a diplomatic banquet. During the dinner, an English lady asked Wang Chonghui, "I heard that both men and women in your country got married according to the words of a matchmaker, and they didn't fall in love. What a mistake! Like us, we all got married after a long period of love and a deep understanding of each other. How happy! " Wang Chonghui smiled and replied, "It's like two pots of water. Our pot is cold water, which is gradually heated on the stove and then boiled. Therefore, the relationship between husband and wife in China was very cold at first, and then gradually improved, so there were few incidents after divorce. And you are like a pot of boiling water. After you get married, it will get cold slowly. I heard that there are many divorce cases in England. Is this the reason?

6. Yang Xiaolou

Yang Xiaolou (1877- 1937) played Guan Ping when he performed the Peking Opera Qingshishan for the first time in Beijing. Zhou Cang's old partner asked for leave, and temporarily changed his face. The flower-faced man drank a little wine and got on the stage in a daze, forgetting to bring the indispensable prop-beard. When Yang Xiaolou saw something bad, he thought the actor had made a mistake and the audience was booed. I had a brainwave and temporarily added a line: "Cough! Who is standing in front of you? " Playing Zhou Cang is puzzled. I don't know what's going on. "I'm Zhou Cang-"At this time, the students have to do an action: trim their beards. This reason woke the actor up, but he changed his mind and said, "My son!" " Yang Xiaolou took it and said, "Well, it's no use to you. Go down and call your dad! " "Get the jade seal!" The actor hurried down, put on his beard and went on stage again.

7.hu shi

Hu Shi (189 1- 1962), a famous modern scholar in China, is a rabbit, and his wife Jiang Dongxiu is a tiger. Hu Shi often joked that "rabbits are afraid of tigers." There was a joke that Hu Shi was afraid of his wife. On one occasion, a friend in Paris gave Hu Shi more than a dozen ancient French copper coins. Because there is the letter "PTT" on the money, it sounds like "fear of the wife". Hu Shi joked with several friends who were afraid of their wives: "If a wife-fearing association is established, these copper coins will be used as badges for members." Hu Shi often goes to universities to give lectures. Once, in a university, he often quoted Confucius, Mencius and Dr. Sun Yat-sen in his speeches. When quoting, he wrote on the blackboard: "Confucius said", "Meng said" and "Sun said". Finally, when he expressed his opinion, it caused a burst of laughter. It turned out that all he wrote was "nonsense".

8. Guo Moruo

1945 Liao Zaiyu, a famous cartoonist in China, exhibited the cartoon "Spring and Autumn in Cat Country". At that time, many cultural celebrities in Chongqing, such as Guo Moruo (1892- 1978), Song Yunbin and Wang Qi, were invited to attend the ribbon-cutting ceremony of the first exhibition. During the dinner, Guo Moruo asked Liao Xiongbing, "Why is your name so strange and you call yourself your brother?" Wang Qi, the printmaker, grabbed the conversation and explained, "His sister's name is Bing, so he is called Brother Bing." Guo Moruo said with a smile: "Oh, I see, Yu Dafu's wife must be called Yu Da, and Shao Lizi's father must be called Shao Li." A word caused laughter from all the guests in the room.