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。