A lot of people may not remember

很多人可能记不得
where they were during the Kennedy assassination,

肯尼迪遇刺时自己在哪里
but they say,

但他们会说
"I remember the day I saw the inclined plane;

"我记得自己第一次碰到斜面的日子
that's the day I said I'm not going into physics."

就是那天我发誓要远离物理"
Because this is very bad publicity for our field.

因为这可太影响我们这个领域的形象了
You come into a subject hearing about relativity and quantum mechanics

你在听说相对论和量子力学之后开始接触这个学科
and then-- or maybe gravitation and astrophysics,

然后也许还有万有引力和天体物理
and we hit you with this.

然后我们就用这个打击你
So why am I doing this?

我为什么要讲这个呢
Well, if you can do this and you find it boring,

如果你能学会它然后发现很无聊
you can move on.

你可以继续学别的