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The thought experiment has a noble place in research, but some thoughts are deemed nobler than others. Darwin and Einstein could
The thought experiment has a noble place in research, but some thoughts are deemed nobler than others. Darwin and Einstein could
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2019-08-08
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The thought experiment has a noble place in research, but some thoughts are deemed nobler than others. Darwin and Einstein could let their minds wander and imagine the consequences of certain actions or natural laws. 【F1】
But scientists and historians who try to estimate what might have happened if, say, Darwin had drowned, are often accused of playing parlor games.
Most of these counterfactual thought experiments tend to focus on changes to the lives of historical figures—what would have happened had Hitler never been born, for instance. Dismissed as silly and speculative, such exercises are considered of little academic value.
【F2】
The course of history is surely dependent on the roles of influential individuals, which is why counterfactual tales of frustrated plots succeeding and dictators killed as infants seem so poorly anchored to reality.
An individual really can steer events, so a world without that individual is unknowable. But what about the course of science, and the ideas that push it along? Is scientific and technical progress equally dependent on circumstance and personality? Or are discoveries inevitable, and independent of the people who happen to be around to make them?
What if Darwin had toppled overboard before he joined the evolutionary dots? 【F3】
That discussion seems useful, because it raises interesting questions about the state of knowledge, then and now, and how it is communicated and portrayed.
【F4】
In his 2013 book—in which the young Charles is, indeed, lost in a storm—the historian Peter Bowler argued that the theory of evolution would have emerged just so, but with the pieces perhaps placed in a different order, and therefore less opposed to religious society.
This week, another historian offers an alternative pathway for science: what if the ideas of Gregor Mendel on the inheritance of traits had been challenged more robustly and more successfully by a rival interpretation by the scientist W. F. R. Weldon? Gregory Radick argues that a twentieth-century genetics driven more by Weldon’s emphasis on environmental context would have weakened the dominance of the current misleading impression that nature always outdoes nurture.
A well-informed interest in alternative scientific pasts can help us to take the actual past more seriously as a source of present-day insight. It can also help us to stay self-critical as we make choices in the present. Science without consensus would be chaos. 【F5】
But the price of consensus is eternal watchfulness of self-satisfaction, and a willingness to contemplate the road otherwise not travelled.
【F5】
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但形成一致的认可也要付出代价,即要时刻警醒自己不能自我满足,要主动选择还没有人走的路。
解析
①本句主干是主系表结构的the price of consensus is…,指“形成一致的代价是……”。系动词后是两个并列的名词结构作表语。②表语1的eternal watchfulness后是介词结构of self-satisfaction作后置定语,直译为“自我满足的时刻警醒”。③表语2的willingness由其后的to contemplate the road…修饰,a willingness to…表示“……的意愿”。句末的otherwise not travelled是过去分词作road的后置定语,意为“还没有人走过的路”。
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