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Science, in practice, depends far less on the experiments it prepares than on the preparedness of the minds of the men who watch
Science, in practice, depends far less on the experiments it prepares than on the preparedness of the minds of the men who watch
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2018-03-01
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Science, in practice, depends far less on the experiments it prepares than on the preparedness of the minds of the men who watch the experiments. Sir Isaac Newton supposedly discovered gravity through the fall of an apple. Apples had been falling in many places for centuries and thousands of people had seen them fall. But Newton for years had been curious about the cause of the orbital motion of the moon and planets. What kept them in place? Why didn’t they fall out of the sky? The fact that the apple fell down toward the earth and not up into the tree answered the question he had been asking himself about those larger fruits of the heavens, the moon and the planets.
How many men would have considered the possibility of an apple falling up into the tree? Newton did because he was not trying to predict anything. He was just wondering. His mind was ready for the unpredictable. Unpredictability is part of the essential nature of research. If you don’t have unpredictable things, you don’t have research. Scientists tend to forget this when writing their cut and dried reports for the technical journals, but history is filled with examples of it.
In talking to some scientists, particularly younger ones, you might gather the impression that they find the "scientific method" a substitute for imaginative thought. I’ve attended research conferences where a scientist has been asked what he thinks about the advisability of continuing a certain experiment. The scientist has frowned, looked at the graphs, and said "the data are still inconclusive." "We know that," the men from the budget office have said, "but what do you think? Is it worthwhile going on? What do you think we might expect?" The scientist has been shocked at having even been asked to speculate.
What this amounts to, of course, is that the scientist has become the victim of his own writings. He has put forward unquestioned claims so consistently that he not only believes them himself, but has convinced industrial and business management that they are true. If experiments are planned and carried out according to plan as faithfully as the reports in the science journals indicate, then it is perfectly logical for management to expect research to produce results measurable in dollars and cents. It is entirely reasonable for auditors to believe that scientists who know exactly where they are going and how they will get there should not be distracted by the necessity of keeping one eye on the cash register while the other eye is on the microscope. Nor, if regularity and conformity to a standard pattern are as desirable to the scientist as the writing of his papers would appear to reflect, is management to be blamed for discriminating against the "odd balls" among researchers in favor of more conventional thinkers who "work well with the team."
According to the second paragraph, scientists ______.
选项
A、always write some scientific journals
B、tend to overlook unpredictable things which are important to research
C、always forget historical examples
D、like to try to predict things
答案
B
解析
选项B对应第二段的最后一句,这一句话中提到,科学家倾向于忘记这个,这个指代前一句话的内容:如果没有不可预测的事情就不会有科学研究。也就是说不可预测的事情对于研究很重要。因此选项B是正确答案。选项A对应这个段的最后一句后半段,但是这里说的是为技术杂志写报告,不是写技术杂志,选项A属于偷换概念,故错误。选项C无中生有。选项D对应这个段第二句,但是这一句中提到的“trying to predict anything”是被否定的对象,也就是说选项D与原文相反。而且,这一句话的说明对象是牛顿,他是众多科学家中的一员,但是不能代替题干中的“scientists”,也就是说牛顿做的事情不一定代表所有科学家做的事情,因此选项D是不对的。
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