Celebrity short stories

Once, Socrates was walking in the street, and someone hit him on the back with a stick, which made him unable to stand up and squat down, but soon, he stood up casually. Seeing that he didn't respond, others who witnessed the whole process asked him curiously: You were beaten, why didn't you fight back? Socrates replied with a smile: the wild donkey kicked you, did you return it?

* Bernard Shaw loved riding a bike when he was young. Once he broke his leg bone, his female classmates took good care of him. Bernard Shaw was worried that he was weak-willed and would propose to this female classmate, so he decided to slip away. But he accidentally fell down the stairs and broke his legs. As a result, he really asked her if she would marry him. Bernard Shaw fainted when the female classmate nodded.

A lady said to Mao Mu, I've been with a man for a long time, but I'm not sure if I'm in love with him. This famous writer has a very unique view on the test of love. He said: there is only one way to test whether you really love him. Would you like to brush your teeth with his toothbrush?

Someone asked Dumas: Why can you enter your old age with great composure? He retorted disapprovingly: It took me all my life to live today.

* Fang Lingxuan, a famous figure in the Tang Dynasty, was seriously ill when he was not an official. He said to his wife Lu: If I die of illness, don't be widowed and remarry. Lushi went to the room and dug out an eye to show that he would never change his mind. Later, Fang recovered from illness and rose to the high position of prime minister, always showing great respect for his wife.

Agatha christie's husband is an archaeologist. Once, at a party, a friend asked him: How do you feel when an imaginative woman like you marries an antique player? Detective novelists say: archaeologists are ideal husbands. You see, the older things get, the more he likes them.

Voltaire visited England on 1727. He found that the British hated the French very much. A group of Englishmen shouted at him: Kill him and hang the Frenchman! Voltaire said: English! You want to kill me because I'm French. Isn't it hard enough to be punished because I'm not English? The Englishman smiled and sent him all the way back to the apartment.

Chaplin is a rare all-round filmmaker who can compose music, direct and act. Once, he held a film production meeting and a fly flew around him. At first, he hit it several times with his hand, but he missed it, so he asked for a fly swatter. During the dinner, he took a fly swatter, posed as a fly swatter and looked at the flies viciously. But he called three times. The comedian shrugged his shoulders and said, this is not the one just now!

* After Li Bai's death, his body was buried at the head of the quarrying river, and poets from all walks of life wrote poems in front of his grave. Someone wrote a quatrain: the stone quarrying river is a piece of rotten soil, and Li Bai's poems are famous throughout the ages; Come and go to write two lines, and drop a big axe in front of Lu Ban.

* In his later years, Ouyang Xiu painstakingly revised the words written in his life every day. His wife told him not to modify them, saying, why do you torture yourself like this? Are you still afraid of being scolded by the teacher? Ouyang Xiu said with a smile: I am not afraid of being scolded by the teacher, but I am afraid of being laughed at by future generations.

Lincoln once dreamed that he was attending a meeting. When he walked, everyone made way for Lincoln. At this time, in a large group of people, one whispered: He is just an ordinary-looking person. Lincoln listened and said, friend, God likes ordinary people, so he gave birth to many ordinary people.

Carnegie, the American steel magnate, talks about the secret of his success: I think my greatest advantage is that I can arouse people's enthusiasm. The best way for people to do their best is to appreciate him and praise him. The boss's criticism is the easiest way to destroy the confidence of deployment. I have never seen a person do things better when he is blown on cloud nine than when he is praised.

* Eliot, president of Harvard University in the United States, said: I think Harvard can really be called a treasure house of knowledge now. But I'm thinking that Harvard can become a treasure house of knowledge because freshmen bring knowledge, while senior students leave school with only a little knowledge.

* Curtis, a famous German doctor, once gave a banquet and stood on the host's side. He wanted to cut the roast pig on the table and give it to the guests. He cut the pig's chest straight with a knife, then cut it horizontally, and then pulled the cut mushrooms and other fillings into the pig's stomach in a quick and unique way. Then he took out a suitcase from his pocket, a surgical needle and thread from the suitcase, and sewed up the cut chest.

Kate Ritchie, a famous professor at Harvard University in the United States, is an authority on Shakespeare studies. Once, when he was teaching Shakespeare on the pulpit, he accidentally stepped into the air and fell under the pulpit. He stood up and said to the students with great momentum: I have been teaching for forty years, and for the first time I fell to the same level as the audience!

Once, a performance competition imitating Chaplin was held in a certain place, with as many as thirty or forty participants. Chaplin himself participated anonymously and won the third place. Chaplin thinks this is the biggest joke of his life!

* A female student of Smith Women's University in the United States once dated her boyfriend and returned to the dormitory very late, so she had to climb in through the window. But the window is too heavy for her to lift. Suddenly someone came to help her at the window and whispered to her, don't let others see it. When she climbed in, it was President Wilson smiling.

* Dr. Johnson, whose father runs a big second-hand bookstall. Once, there was a program not far away, and everyone went to the market. It is raining. His father wants Dr. John to distribute some books and transport them to the market. His father called him three times, but Dr. Johnson was absorbed in reading a thick and big book at this moment, but he pretended not to hear him and ignored him. His father sighed. Dr Johnson is eighteen years old. Fifty years later, one day at eleven o'clock at noon, the local people saw the bloated old man kneeling in the street. He put his hat under his arm, put his crutch aside, bowed his head in the sun and burst into tears. At this time, Dr. Johnson became famous and everyone came to see him. He said to everyone: Fifty years ago, on the same day and at the same time, I did not listen to my father, and now I am kneeling here to confess!

A bartender in Paris said: I can tell the nationality of a customer after drinking two double martinis. The French fall in love, the Spanish dance, the Germans brag, the Italians sing, the Irish fight, and the Americans stand up and give speeches.

Joey Brown traveled to the East during the Pacific War and met with General MacArthur. They took a picture together. The famous movie star Lian said: I am very lucky to take a photo with you! But General MacArthur said: This photo was taken for my youngest son. He often hoped that his father could take photos with celebrities.

* In his later years, Ouyang Xiu painstakingly revised the words written in his life every day. His wife told him not to modify them, saying, why do you torture yourself like this? Are you still afraid of being scolded by the teacher? Ouyang Xiu said with a smile: I am not afraid of being scolded by the teacher, but I am afraid of being laughed at by future generations.

Mark Twain worked in a newspaper when he was young. Six months later, the editor told him not to come back tomorrow. Mark Twain asked why. The editor-in-chief said: Because you are too lazy. Mark Twain smiled and replied: It will take you six months to find out that I am lazy, but I knew it the first day I entered the newspaper.

Yang Xiu was a trusted minister of Cao Cao in the later Han Dynasty. He was very clever when he was nine years old. One day, his father visited Kong Ping and was received by him. He prepared bayberry to entertain him. Kong Ping saw him and jokingly asked, Is this the fruit of your family? Yang Xiu immediately replied: I have never heard that peacocks are your poultry!

* When Su Shi was the magistrate of Hangzhou in the Song Dynasty, there was a villager who made a living by fans, but it was cold, so he owed taxes. Dongpo asked him to draw dead wood and bamboo stones with fans, and drew more than 20 fans. Only when the county headquarters walked out of the county gate, someone came to buy it. So all the taxes owed were paid off.

Raphael, an Italian Renaissance painter, painted a portrait of Maria holding her son Jesus. On her right is an old man and on her left is a maid. But there is a big blank below, and he is thinking about what to fill. At this time, he saw two children from the window of a nearby bakery. The older one is about four or five years old, holding his chin up, looking up at the sky and talking to his younger brother. The younger brother leaned his head on his arm, looked at the sky and listened to his brother.

Someone asked Raphael how he could paint such beautiful works. He replied: I had many dreams, and then I painted around them. Fantasy can make people see intangible things, while will can turn intangible things into tangible entities.

* Einstein put forward his views on success in life at the press conference. He used a mathematical formula to express it: assuming that A represents a person's success, I can write the following formula: A = X+Y+Z, X represents work, and Y represents games. The reporter asked: What does Z stand for? Einstein smiled and replied: Z is to keep your mouth shut.

* Finnish conductor Boris Sebo and his wife came to the United States to perform. It is said that the house where they live is often haunted. One day, they were really awakened by the sound of a ghost. Mrs. Sebo asked her husband to see it, but the conductor said, No, honey, you'd better go because your English is better than mine.

When Mozart was six years old, he gave his first concert in the palace in Munich, Germany. As soon as the floor in the palace was smooth, he slipped as soon as he entered the palace door. At this moment, a little princess came to help him up and kissed his hand. Mozart was so grateful that he didn't know how to thank him. He said, when I grow up, I must marry you as my bride. Everyone burst into laughter.

* 1948 In the American general election, President Truman rushed to his hometown from the White House to vote. A group of reporters followed him to the president's house, but they didn't see him. Later, when they met the president, a reporter asked him what happened along the way. President Truman replied: A police car stopped us. It seems that an important person will pass through this town today.

Once, a reporter asked Kennedy: How did you become a hero in World War II? Kennedy replied: They sank my ocean patrol boat, and I became famous. We know that Kennedy was sunk by the enemy in the small boat DT-O 8, and he was injured.

Socrates' wife is fierce. Once, she lost her temper and called Socrates. Before Yunu stopped breathing, she took a big bucket of water and poured it on her husband's head. Socrates scratched his wet hair and said with a smile, there will be heavy rain after thunder. This is the law of nature and the truth.

Newton was very absorbed in his studies. Once, a friend treated him. During the dinner, he remembered that there was a bottle of good wine at home, so he told his friends to wait and go home to get the wine himself. Friends were waiting around, but Newton didn't come back, so we had to investigate. It turned out that Newton thought of an experiment on his way home. When he got home, he plunged into the laboratory and started the experiment, completely forgetting about entertaining his friends with wine. On another occasion, when he was hungry, he boiled eggs to eat, but while thinking about the problem, he put the eggs in the pot. The problem was solved. When he wanted to eat eggs, he opened the lid and picked up his pocket watch.

* Sima Guang in the Song Dynasty was born in an official family. Wit and studious since childhood. Just turned 20, admitted to Jinshi. He is an honest official, who often studies in his spare time and is determined to write a general chronicle for people's reference. In order to seize the time to study, he specially made a log pillow. The magical function of the pillow is that when sleeping, the body will roll as soon as it rotates, and people will wake up to continue learning knowledge, so it is called "police pillow". Whenever Sima Guang needs a rest, he puts a "police pillow" on the pillow. As a result of this study, he finally became a knowledgeable person.

The story of Newton and Apple

For a long time, Newton thought that there must be a mysterious force pulling the planets in the solar system around the sun. But what kind of power is this?

Until one day, Newton was thinking under the apple tree in the garden, and an apple fell at his feet. Newton finally had an epiphany and his problem was gradually solved.

Hua

From 65438 to 0946, the famous mathematician Hua was hired as a tenured professor by an American university with favorable conditions. But he replied: "in order to choose the truth, for the country and the nation, I want to return to China!" " "Finally returned to Peiping (now Beijing) with his wife and children. After returning home, he not only devoted himself to theoretical research, but also traveled to 23 provinces, municipalities and autonomous regions all over the country, and solved a large number of practical problems in production with mathematics, so he was known as the "people's mathematician".

In addition, there are famous geologist Li Siguang, biologist Tong Dizhou, nuclear physicist Qian Xuesen, high-energy physicist Zhang Wenyu and chemist Tang Aoqing ... all of them are full of patriotic enthusiasm and have made great contributions to the country's rejuvenation.

This scientist has his native country Pasteur.

Pasteur was an outstanding scientist in France in the19th century and the founder of microbiology. Because he invented the method of vaccination against infectious diseases, he made great contributions to the disease prevention and control of human beings and livestock and poultry raised by human beings. Due to outstanding achievements in science. He enjoys a high reputation throughout Europe, and the University of Bonn in Germany solemnly awarded the honorary degree certificate to this famous scholar. However, after the Franco-Prussian War broke out, Germany occupied French territory. Out of deep affection for the motherland and deep hatred for the aggressor Germany, Pasteur resolutely returned the honorary degree certificate to Bonn University. He said: "Although science has no national boundaries, scientists have their own motherland." Hit the floor's words fully expressed a scientist's patriotic feelings, and thus became an immortal patriotic quote.

Qian Xuesen showed great love for his motherland.

People's Republic of China (PRC) was founded 1949. Qian Xuesen, who has been in the United States for nearly 20 years, is extremely excited. On the 6th day after the birth of New China, Qian Xuesen and his wife had a strong idea: to return to the lovely motherland and contribute their wisdom and strength to the new country. However, the road to return home is full of twists and turns and hardships, which Qian Xuesen did not expect. This scholar, who is "worth five divisions wherever he goes", was made difficult by the US Immigration Bureau when he packed his scientific books and research notes and sent them to the US handling company for transportation back to China. They threatened the patriotic scholar in China in every way and put him in a detention center, which greatly restricted his personal freedom. For five years, he almost lived under house arrest. However, many hardships did not destroy the strong will of Qian Xuesen and his wife to return to the motherland. They packed their boxes and prepared to fly back to China at any time every day. 1955, Qian Xuesen, who was suffering in anxious to return, called for help from his motherland, and the China government came forward to try to rescue him through negotiation. Finally, in September this year, Qian Xuesen and his wife returned to the embrace of the motherland after more than five years of struggle.

4. Boyle skeptical chemist

Boyle attaches great importance to experimental research. He believes that only experiment and observation are the basis of scientific thinking. He always clarifies his views through rigorous and scientific experiments. In physics, he studied the color of light, the elasticity of vacuum and air, and summarized Boyle's gas law. In chemistry, his research on acid, alkali and indicator, and his discussion on the qualitative test method of salt are quite effective. He was the first chemist to use the juices of various natural plants as indicators. He invented litmus test solution and litmus test paper. He was also the first chemist to give a clear definition of acid and alkali, and divided substances into three categories: acid, alkali and salt. He created many qualitative methods to test salt, such as using copper salt solution to be blue, adding ammonia solution to become dark blue (copper ions and enough ammonia water form copper-ammonia complex ions) to test copper salt; The white precipitate produced by mixing hydrochloric acid and silver nitrate solution is used to test silver salt and hydrochloric acid. Boyle's invention is full of long-term vitality, so that we still often use these oldest methods today. Boyle has also done many experiments in determining the composition and purity of substances, and studying the similarities and differences of substances. A brief review of the history of mineral water experimental research published by 1685 describes a set of methods to identify substances and becomes a pioneer in qualitative analysis.

1670, Boyle suffered a stroke due to fatigue, and his physical condition was good and bad. When he can't do research in the laboratory, he devotes himself to sorting out the knowledge gained from practice and reasoning for many years. As long as he feels a little light, he goes to the laboratory to do his experiments or write papers for fun. 1680, he was elected president of the royal society, but he refused to accept this honor. Although he was born into a noble family, he devoted his life to scientific research and life. He never married and devoted his life to exploring natural science. 169 165438 On February 30th, the scientist who laid the foundation of chemical science in17th century died in London. Engels once gave him the highest evaluation: "Boyle identified chemistry as science."

5. priestley-the father of gas chemistry

1774, priestley put mercury soot (mercury oxide) into a glass dish and heated it with a condenser, and found that it quickly decomposed into gas. He thinks that the air has been released, so he collects the generated gas by gas collection and studies it. He found that the gas made the candle burn more brightly, and he felt relaxed and comfortable breathing. He made oxygen, and proved through experiments that oxygen has the properties of combustion-supporting and breathing. However, because he is a stubborn believer in phlogiston, he still thinks that air is a single gas, so he also calls this gas "dephosphorized air". The difference between its nature and the "air saturated with phlogiston" (nitrogen) discovered earlier is only the difference in phlogiston content, so its combustion-supporting ability is also different. In the same year, he visited Europe, exchanged many chemical views with lavoisier in Paris, and told lavoisier about the experiment of decomposing mercury and silver ash with condenser, which benefited lavoisier a lot. Lavoisier just repeated priestley's experiment about oxygen, and linked it with a large number of accurate experimental materials, made scientific analysis and judgment, and revealed the real connection between combustion and air. But it was not until 1783 that lavoisier's theory of combustion oxidation was generally considered to be correct. Priestley still refused to accept lavoisier's explanation, insisted on the wrong phlogiston theory, and wrote many articles against lavoisier's opinion. This is an interesting fact in the history of chemistry. A person who discovered oxygen became a person who opposed the theory of oxidation. However, priestley found that oxygen is an important factor in the vigorous development of chemistry. So chemists all over the world still respect Priestley.

179 1 year, he sympathized with the French revolution and made propaganda speeches for the revolution many times, but he was persecuted by some people, his home was copied, and books and experimental equipment were set on fire. He escaped alone and took refuge in London, but it was difficult for him to live in London for a long time. At the age of 6 1, he had to immigrate to the United States. Continue to engage in scientific research in the United States. 1804 is dead. People in Britain and America respect him very much, and England has a full-length statue of him. In the United States, the house where he lived has been built into a memorial hall, and the priestley Medal named after him has become the highest honor in American chemistry.

6. Madame Curie

Marie Curie (Madame Curie) was a French-born Polish physicist and chemist.

1906, pierre curie died in a car accident. This heavy blow did not make her give up her persistent pursuit. She fought back her grief and redoubled her efforts to complete their beloved scientific career. She continued her husband's lecture at the University of Paris and became the first female professor at the university. 19 10, her famous book on radioactivity was published. She cooperated with Mou and others to analyze pure metal radium and measure its properties. She also measured the half-lives of oxygen and other elements and published a series of important works on radioactivity. In view of the above great achievements, she won the Nobel Prize in chemistry at 19 1 1, becoming the first great scientist to win the Nobel Prize twice in history.

The founder of radiation science, who suffered from scientific hardships, died unfortunately on July 4, 1934 on/kloc-0 because of years of efforts. She devoted her glorious life to the scientific cause of mankind.

7. Biologist Tong Dizhou thundered against Pi Nuo.

When Tong Dizhou, a famous scholar, was studying abroad, Russian Pi Nuo, who lived with him, said disdainfully, "Mr. Tong, it's really hard. As soon as I saw you, I thought of your country, the sick man of East Asia ... "Tong Dizhou was angry:" Don't insult my motherland! You can represent your country and I represent my country. Starting tomorrow, let's see who gets the degree first! " Pi Nuo was speechless. Four years later, Tong Dizhou received a doctorate, which was praised by the European biological community. He won the keynote for himself and glory for his country.

8. Chen Jiageng

Chen Jiageng, a patriotic overseas Chinese, traveled overseas for business at the age of 17 and eventually became a billionaire in Nanyang. 19 19 In the autumn, Chen Jiageng, who returned home dressed in fine clothes, decided to set up a school in his hometown, and successively established a primary school, a middle school and a normal school. Regarding the difficulties of the British, he firmly stated: "Enterprises can close down. The school must not be closed. " He sold his property and insisted on running a school.

Chen Jiageng actively supported Dr. Sun Yat-sen's revolutionary behavior. He raised more than 200,000 yuan to help restore Fujian. After the outbreak of War of Resistance against Japanese Aggression, he provided financial and material assistance for the war of resistance as much as possible. From 1937 to 1940, the total amount of donations raised by Mr. Chen for the Anti-Japanese War.

Up to 3 billion yuan.

In his personal life, he never squandered money easily, lived frugally and was a vegetarian. On his deathbed, he donated his legacy of more than 3 million yuan to the country.

For decades, Chen Jiageng has expressed the patriotism of an overseas Chinese with practical actions.