There must be possible a fiction which, leaving sociology and case histories to the scientists, can arrive at the truth about the human condition, here and now, with all the bright magic of the fairy tale.

  • -- Ralph Ellison 埃利森

一定存在这样一种可能:把社会学和案例史留给科学家们,让他们用童话中所有的光明魔力,在此时此地,了解人类状况的真相。

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That subject has lost its one time appeal to economists as our science has become more abstract, but my interest has even grown more intense as the questions raised by the sociology of science became more prominent.

随着我们的科学变得越来越抽象,这门学科对经济学家失去了一度的吸引力,但随着科学社会学提出的问题变得更加突出,我的兴趣甚至变得更加浓厚。

The Nobel Prize, so long regarded in our science as the highest reward a man's work can earn, must bring to its recipient a most solemn sense of his debt to his fellow scientists and those of the past.

诺贝尔奖,长期以来在我们的科学界被视为一个人的工作所能获得的最高奖赏,它必须给它的接受者带来一种对他的科学家同行和过去的科学家所负的最庄严的责任的感觉。

As great scientists have said and as all children know, it is above all by the imagination that we achieve perception, and compassion, and hope.

正如伟大的科学家们所说,正如所有的孩子们所知道的,最重要的是通过想象力,我们获得了感知、同情和希望。

Fundamentally, legislation that is historic, that is comprehensive, that has a large number of senators supporting it is more durable.

从根本上说,具有历史意义的、全面的、有大量参议员支持的立法更持久。

Sociology seems to have missed every intellectually promising boat in the last half century.

在过去的半个世纪里,社会学似乎错过了每一条在学术上有前途的船。