There is not much that even the most socially responsible scientists can do as individuals, or even as a group, about the social consequences of their activities.

  • -- Eric Hobsbawm 埃里克·霍布斯鲍姆

即使是最具社会责任感的科学家,作为个人,甚至作为一个群体,也无法就其活动的社会后果做出多少贡献。

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They tend to be pretty abstract ones then, like doing what will have the best consequences; obviously you wouldn't specify what consequences are best, they may be different in some circumstances, so at a lower, more specific level, you may well get differences.

他们往往是非常抽象的,比如做什么会有最好的结果;显然,你不会指定什么结果是最好的,它们在某些情况下可能是不同的,所以在更低、更具体的层次上,你很可能会得到不同的结果。

Take the situation of a scientist solving a problem, where he has certain data, which call for certain responses. Some of this set of data call for his applying such and such a law, while others call for another law.

以科学家解决问题为例,他有一定的数据,需要一定的响应。这组数据中,有些要求他应用某条或某条法律,而另一些则要求另一条法律。

Simply making myself aware of others has remarkably improved my social life. People accept me much faster now that I ignore them less.

仅仅是让自己意识到别人对我的社交生活有很大的改善。现在人们接受我的速度快多了,因为我对他们的忽视少了。

Theories of love are found in the works of scientists, philosophers, and theologians.

爱的理论可以在科学家、哲学家和神学家的著作中找到。

In fact, I think for a lot of writers, it's so hard to be read.

事实上,我认为对很多作家来说,读起来很难。

One often gets what one disdains

一个人常常得到他所蔑视的东西