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.

  • -- Ralph Ellison 埃利森

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。

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It's not about doing over the living room of someone who has bad taste in color. This is about restoring historic buildings and instilling pride in a community, which can be done through designing new public spaces and social gathering spots.

这并不是说要改造一个对颜色有不良品味的人的客厅。这是关于修复历史建筑,并向社区灌输自豪感,这可以通过设计新的公共空间和社交聚会场所来实现。

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.

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。

A scientist is in a sense a learned small boy. There is something of the scientist in every small boy. Others must outgrow it. Scientists can stay that way all their lives.

科学家在某种意义上是一个有学问的小男孩。每个小男孩身上都有科学家的气质。其他人必须长大后才能适应。科学家可以一直保持这种状态。

One way we can enliven the imagination is to push it toward the illogical. We're not scientists. We don't always have to make the logical, reasonable leap.

我们激活想象力的一种方法是把它推向不合逻辑的方向。我们不是科学家。我们不必总是做出合乎逻辑的、合理的飞跃。

Get it out of your historic head.

把它从你的历史头脑中抹去。