Einstein discovered to his horror that Hilbert had taken what he had learned from Einstein's lectures and was racing to come up with the correct equations first.

爱因斯坦惊恐地发现，希尔伯特把他从爱因斯坦的讲座中学到的东西都拿来了，而且还在争先恐后地首先提出正确的方程式。