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很多时候,科学被人们想象为人类社会中的一项特殊事业:它是客观的、确定的,因此更少受人类天性中的那些弱点——尤其是偏见和狭隘——所影响。应该说这是一种美妙的想法。不过,只要对科学的历史稍加留意,我们就能发现,在科学的实际运行中存在的狭隘和偏见,与人类其他领域比起来其实毫不逊色。诺贝尔科学奖在今天的声誉无与伦比,但也无法摆脱这一人类行为规则的制约。在它100余年的历史中,一些有趣的故事恰好可以作为上述观点的精彩注脚。本刊约请中国人民大学哲学院教师马建波先生撰文,为读者提供其中的几个经典——不是曝光,也不是窥私,当然更不是诋毁——而是希望我们对科学的理解和审视,能够多一种维度。
Too often, science is conceived as a special undertaking in human society: it is objective and deterministic, and thus less affected by those weaknesses in human nature, especially prejudice and narrow-mindedness. It should be said that this is a wonderful idea. However, with a little bit of attention to the history of science, we can see that the narrowness and prejudice that exist in the actual operation of science are in no way inferior to other areas of humankind. The Nobel Prize in science is unmatched in its reputation today, but it can not escape the constraints of this human code of conduct. In its more than 100 years of history, some interesting stories happen to serve as wonderful footnotes to this view. The journal invites Mr. Ma Jianbo from Renmin University of China, Mr. Ma Jianbo, to provide readers with some of the classic - not exposure, nor gossip, of course, not even slander - but hope that our understanding of science and can more A dimension.