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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I would recommend the short story form, which is a lot harder to write since you have to be so careful with words, until there is plenty of time to doodle through a novel.

我推荐短篇小说的形式,因为你必须非常小心用词,所以写短篇小说要困难得多,直到你有足够的时间草草读完一部小说。

It's like someone cutting up a loved one in front of you, all the time insisting they've got your best interests at heart. They're very devious nowadays.

这就像有人当着你的面切割你所爱的人,一直坚称他们把你的最大利益放在心里。他们现在非常狡猾。

Science cuts two ways, of course; its products can be used for both good and evil. But there's no turning back from science.

当然,科学有两条路可走;它的产品可以用来做好事,也可以用来做坏事。但科学是没有回头路的。

Events in a single human lifetime are remarkable. Events from all human lifetimes are inconceivable.

人类一生中所发生的事情是非凡的。人类一生中发生的事件都是不可想象的。

The public is even more pessimistic about the economy than even the most bearish economists are.

公众对经济的悲观程度甚至超过了最悲观的经济学家。

Sociology seems to have missed every intellectually promising boat in the last half century.

在过去的半个世纪里,社会学似乎错过了每一条在学术上有前途的船。

If all the economists were laid end to end, they'd never reach a conclusion.

如果把所有的经济学家首尾相连,他们永远也不会得出结论。

Even at its most perceptive, sociology deals in abstractions.

即使在最具洞察力的时候,社会学也处理抽象问题。