I don't think academic writing ever was wonderful. However, science used to be much less specialized.

  • -- Stephen Jay Gould 斯蒂芬·杰·古尔德

我不认为学术写作有多好。然而,科学过去没有那么专业化。

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There's an academic tradition called the 'Last Lecture.' Hypothetically, if you knew you were going to die and you had one last lecture, what would you say to your students? Well, for me, there's an elephant in the room. And the elephant in the room, for me, it wasn't hypothetical.

有一个学术传统叫做“最后一课”。假设,如果你知道自己就要死了,而你还有最后一堂课,你会对你的学生说什么?对我来说,房间里有一头大象。房间里的大象,对我来说,这不是假设。

The PhD system is the real root of the evil of academic snobbery. People who have PhDs consider themselves a priesthood, and inventors generally don't have PhDs.

博士制度是学术势利的真正根源。拥有博士学位的人认为自己是祭司,而发明家通常没有博士学位。