The social sciences, I thought, needed the same kind of rigor and the same mathematical underpinnings that had made the "hard" sciences so brilliantly successful.

  • -- Herbert Simon 西蒙

我认为,社会科学需要同样的严谨,同样的数学基础,正是这些基础让“硬”科学取得了如此辉煌的成功。

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We are living now, not in the delicious intoxication induced by the early successes of science, but in a rather grisly morning-after, when it has become apparent that what triumphant science has done hitherto is to improve the means for achieving unimproved or actually deteriorated ends.

我们现在生活在一个相当可怕的上午之后,而不是由于科学的早期成功所引起的美味的陶醉之中。到目前为止,胜利的科学所做的显然是改进手段,以达到没有改进或实际上已经恶化的目的。

I was less successful in my attempts to effect preventive vaccination against typhus by using the virus and in trying to produce large quantities of serum using large animals.

我曾尝试用这种病毒来预防接种斑疹伤寒,并试图用大型动物生产大量血清,但都没有成功。

Our assistance in Somalia has been remarkably effective and successful, and we have helped with very small resources - a large group of people and we can now do even more.

我们在索马里的援助非常有效和成功,我们用非常少的资源提供了帮助- -一大批人,我们现在可以做得更多。

Truly successful decision making relies on a balance between deliberate and instinctive thinking.

真正成功的决策依赖于深思熟虑和本能思考之间的平衡。