原题：我想起来了，这是Einstein在Planck六十大寿上说的话
Einstein早在1918年就这样分过类了：1.飘飘然之彰显能力者，2.戚戚然之养家糊口者，3.还有Max Planck这样的天使选择之遗珠。
如果你不知道出处，可以理解，否则就是剽窃了。现在的所谓researchers，剽窃别人东西的实在太多了，原谅我合理怀疑一下。
Einstein在Planck六十大寿上说的原话的英文翻译「原文为德语」：
In the temple of science are many mansions, and various indeed are they that dwell therein and the motives that have led them thither.
* Many take to science out of a joyful sense of superior intellectual power; science is their own special sport to which they look for vivid experience and the satisfaction of ambition;
* many others are to be found in the temple who have offered the products of their brains on this altar for purely utilitarian purposes.
* Were an angel of the Lord to come and drive all the people belonging to these two categories out of the temple, the assemblage would be seriously depleted, but there would still be some men, of both present and past times, left inside. Our Planck is one of them, and that is why we love him.
I am quite aware that we have just now lightheartedly expelled in imagination many excellent men who are largely, perhaps chiefly, responsible for the buildings of the temple of science; and in many cases our angel would find it a pretty ticklish job to decide. But of one thing I feel sure: if the types we have just expelled were the only types there were, the temple would never have come to be, any more than a forest can grow which consists of nothing but creepers. (中文意译：如果Planck这种类型不存在，而只有另两种人建设神殿搞研究的话，那么这个神殿就不会存在，而只有杂草丛生的野猪林。) For these people any sphere of human activity will do, if it comes to a point; whether they become engineers, officers, tradesmen, or scientists depends on circumstances.(中文意译：那两种人随波逐流，他们会因为种种原因成为工程师，官员，商人，或者科学家。)
Now let us have another look at those who have found favor with the angel. Most of them are somewhat odd, uncommunicative, solitary fellows, really less like each other, in spite of these common characteristics, than the hosts of the rejected. What has brought them to the temple? That is a difficult question and no single answer will cover it. To begin with, I believe with Schopenhauer that one of the strongest motives that leads men to art and science is escape from everyday life with its painful crudity and hopeless dreariness, from the fetters of one's own ever shifting desires. A finely tempered nature longs to escape from personal life into the world of objective perception and thought; this desire may be compared with the townsman's irresistible longing to escape from his noisy, cramped surroundings into the silence of high mountains, where the eye ranges freely through the still, pure air and fondly traces out the restful contours apparently built for eternity.
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