That subject has lost its one time appeal to economists as our science has become more abstract, but my interest has even grown more intense as the questions raised by the sociology of science became more prominent.

  • -- George Stigler 斯蒂格勒

随着我们的科学变得越来越抽象,这门学科对经济学家失去了一度的吸引力,但随着科学社会学提出的问题变得更加突出,我的兴趣甚至变得更加浓厚。

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There must be possible a fiction which, leaving sociology and case histories to the scientists, can arrive at the truth about the human condition, here and now, with all the bright magic of the fairy tale.

一定存在这样一种可能:把社会学和案例史留给科学家们,让他们用童话中所有的光明魔力,在此时此地,了解人类状况的真相。

Whatever may be the distribution of uncertainty among economists, the public only gets to hear from those who have certain opinions.

无论经济学家之间的不确定性分布如何,公众只能听到那些持有某些观点的人的意见。

Nothing in life is to be feared, it is only to be understood. Now is the time to understand more, so that we may fear less.

生活中没有什么可怕的东西,只有需要理解的东西。现在是时候多了解一些了,这样我们就不会那么害怕了。

History is, strictly speaking, the study of questions; the study of answers belongs to anthropology and sociology.

严格地说,历史是对问题的研究;答案研究属于人类学和社会学。

The best scientist is open to experience and begins with romance - the idea that anything is possible.

最好的科学家乐于体验,并从浪漫开始——认为一切皆有可能。

Juggling is sometimes called the art of controlling patterns, controlling patterns in time and space.

杂耍有时被称为控制模式的艺术,控制时间和空间的模式。

Our policymakers, economists and the media bestowed that role on it.

我们的政策制定者、经济学家和媒体赋予了这一角色。

Tide and time wait for no man.

岁月不待人。