Now, in modern times, we call this Pythagoras' theorem.

在现代，我们称之为毕达哥拉斯定理。

Pythagoras was born the longest time ago in 570 B.C. and might have had the first laboratory ever recorded.

毕达哥拉斯出生于公元前570年，可能是有史以来第一个拥有有记载的实验室的人。

Ancient philosophers, going back to Pythagoras, believed that your breath contained your soul.

追溯到毕达哥拉斯的古代哲学家相信你的呼吸包含你的灵魂。

And it's actually a very old idea; it goes back over 2,000 years to Pythagoras.

这实际上是一个非常古老的想法；它可以追溯到 2000 多年前的毕达哥拉斯。

'You're eloquent as Pythagoras, ' remarked Shubin; 'but do you know what I would advise you'?

“你像毕达哥拉斯一样雄辩，”舒宾说。 '但是你知道我会建议你什么'吗？

Pythagoras was misunderstood, and Socrates, and Jesus, and Luther, and Copernicus, and Galileo, and Newton, and every pure and wise spirit that ever took flesh.

毕达哥拉斯被误解了，苏格拉底、耶稣、路德、哥白尼、伽利略、牛顿，以及所有有史以来纯洁与睿智的灵魂都被误解过。

The theorem is named for Pythagoras, a Greek philosopher and mathematician in the 6th century B.C., but it was known more than a thousand years earlier.

该定理是以公元前 6 世纪的希腊哲学家和数学家毕达哥拉斯命名的，但它早在一千多年前就被人所知。

For instance, the Greek philosopher Pythagoras noticed that if you pluck a string, the sound that it makes depends on how long or short it is.

例如，希腊哲学家毕达哥拉斯注意到，如果你拨动一根绳子，它发出的声音取决于它的长短。

Pythagoras is credited with being the person to identify Venus as one single planet, not two — one appearing in the morning and one in the evening.

毕达哥拉斯被认为是确定金星是一颗行星的人，而不是两颗——一颗在早上出现，一颗在晚上出现。

Pythagoras didn't write down his beliefs but communicated them orally to a select few men, so it's hard to know if what we have is his original teachings.

毕达哥拉斯并没有把他的信仰写下来，而是把它们口头传达给少数几个人，所以很难知道我们所拥有的是否是他的原始教义。

Pythagoras, who lived between circa 571 and 497 BCE, developed a mathematical system to explain the movements of the planets, and so often, is considered the first Greek astronomer.

毕达哥拉斯生活在公元前 571 年至 497 年之间，他发明了一套数学系统来解释行星的运行，因此经常被认为是第一位希腊天文学家。

The evil wizard's protective charms ward off every spell you know, so in an act of desperation you throw the only object in reach at him: Pythagoras's cursed chessboard.

邪恶巫师的保护咒可以抵挡你知道的每一个咒语，所以在绝望中你把唯一能拿到的东西扔给他：毕达哥拉斯被诅咒的棋盘。

From Pythagoras to Herbert Spencer, every one had done it, although commonly science had explored an ocean which it preferred to regard as Unity or a Universe, and called Order.

从毕达哥拉斯到赫伯特·斯宾塞，每个人都做到了，尽管科学通常探索的是一片海洋，它更愿意将其视为统一体或宇宙，并称之为秩序。

If Newton's imagination had been of the same vividly dramatic kind he might have seen the ghost of Pythagoras walk into the orchard and explain why the apples were falling.

如果牛顿的想象力同样具有生动的戏剧性， 他可能会看到毕达哥拉斯的鬼魂走进果园并解释为什么苹果会掉下来。

Pythagoras, a Greek philosopher who lived around 500BC, is said to have discovered that notes that sound harmonious together have simple ratios between their frequencies: for example, one that is an octave higher than another has double the frequency.

据说公元前500年左右，希腊哲学家毕达哥拉斯已经发现了发音和谐的音符在频率之间成简单比例：例如，高一个八度的音符具有两倍的频率。