It is characteristic of the design of scientific research that exquisite attention is devoted to methodological problems that can be solved, while the pretense is made that the ones that cannot be solved are really nothing to worry about.

  • -- Richard Lewontin 理查德·莱旺顿

科学研究设计的特点是,对可以解决的方法论问题给予细致的关注,而对不能解决的问题却假装根本不用担心。

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There are two kinds of designers: ones who are very happy locked in their office surrounded by their coterie. The last thing they need to do is to go to a trunk show; they'd go running for the hills. I not only enjoy it, I think, how do you design things that are applicable to life - unless you live it?

有两种类型的设计师:一种非常高兴被锁在办公室里,周围都是自己的小圈子。他们最不需要做的事情就是去看巡回演出;他们会去爬山。我不仅喜欢它,我想,你如何设计适用于生活的东西——除非你生活在其中?

They sit there in committees day after day, And they each put in a color and it comes out gray. And we all have heard the saying, which is true as well as witty, That a camel is a horse that was designed by a committee.

他们日复一日地坐在委员会里,每个人都涂上一种颜色,结果是灰色的。我们都听说过这句话,这是真的,也很诙谐,骆驼是由一个委员会设计的马。