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71.As a romantic teenager, I believed that my future life as a scientist would be justified if I could discover a single new fac
71.As a romantic teenager, I believed that my future life as a scientist would be justified if I could discover a single new fac
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As a romantic teenager, I believed that my future life as a scientist would be justified if I could discover a single new fact and add a brick to the bright temple of human knowledge. The conviction was noble enough; the metaphor was simply silly. Yet that metaphor still governs the attitude of many scientists toward their subject.
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In the conventional model of scientific "progress ", we begin in superstitious ignorance and move toward final truth by the successive accumulation of facts. In this smug perspective, the history of science contains little more than anecdotal interest--for it can only chronicle past errors and credit the bricklayers for discerning glimpses of final truth. It is as transparent a.s an old-fashioned melodrama: truth (as we perceive it today) is the only arbiter and the world of past scientists is divided into good guys who were right and bad guys who were wrong.
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Historians of science have utterly discredited this model during the past decade. Science is not a heartless pursuit of objective information. It is a creative activity, its geniuses acting more as artists than as information processors. Changes in theory are not simply the derivative results of new discoveries but the work of creative imagination influenced by contemporary social and political forces. We should not judge the past through anachronistic spectacles of our own convictions--designating as heroes the scientists whom we judge to be right by criteria that had nothing to do with their own concerns.
We are simply foolish if we call Anaximander (sixth century B. C.) an evolutionist because, in advocating a primary role for water among the four elements, he held that life first inhabited the sea; yet most textbooks so credit him.
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在过去十年中,科学史家完全不相信这种模式。科学并非意味着拼命地追求客观信息,它是一种创造性的活动。其天才人物与其说是信息加工员还不如说是艺术家。理论上的变化不仅仅是新发现的派生成果,而且是受了当代社会和政治力量影响的创造性想象力的结果。我们不应当用我们自负的那种落伍的眼光评判过去——我们用和他们自己的事业无关的标准来判定这些科学家是正确的,把他们指定为英雄人物。
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