Under normal conditions the research scientist is not an innovator but a solver of puzzles, and the puzzles upon which he concentrates are just those which he believes can be both stated and solved within the existing scientific tradition.

  • -- Thomas Kuhn 库恩

在正常情况下,研究科学家不是创新者,而是解谜者,而他所关注的谜题恰恰是那些他认为可以在现有的科学传统中陈述和解决的谜题。

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Blind faith, no matter how passionately expressed, will not suffice. Science for its part will test relentlessly every assumption about the human condition.

盲目的信仰,不管表达得多么热烈,都是不够的。科学本身将无情地检验关于人类状况的每一个假设。

Conditions of thought, memory, and desire, persuaded by impulse and irrationality, are influenced as well by personal aesthetics and private meanings.

思想、记忆和欲望的条件,被冲动和非理性说服,也受到个人美学和私人意义的影响。

One of the first conditions of happiness is that the link between Man and Nature shall not be broken.

幸福的首要条件之一是人与自然之间的联系不能被打破。

The future condition of the conquered power depends on the will of the conquerer

被征服国家的未来状况取决于征服者的意志