化学在人们心目中的形象相当坏。公众怀疑化学,把它看作是一门既复杂而又不易理解的科学。学习化学的传统方法是死记硬背,而不是尽力去理解它。化学家的形象是稍微有些危险而又全然不与人们来往的人,认为他们躲在实验室里与世隔绝,在那里“酿造”一些气味难闻,也许甚至是有毒的复杂混合物。 The image of chemistry in people's minds is quite bad. The public suspects chemistry, seeing it as a science that is both complex and difficult to understand. The traditional way to learn chemistry is to memorize rather than try to understand it. The chemist's image is a somewhat dangerous and totally uninvited person who thinks they hide in the lab and where they “brew” some smelly, and perhaps even toxic, complex mixtures.