Science and the Citizen.
Science and the Citizen.
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科学与公民。
DOI：
10.1126/science.126.3285.1225
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发表时间：
1957
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影响因子：
56.9
通讯作者：
W. Weaver
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作者：
W. Weaver
沃伦韦弗平衡和有用的生活。工业革命是由他们的玄孙们来面对的，而不是他们。一个人不需要了解任何科学来决定自己想成为骑士还是圆颅党。人们可以欣赏1689年《权利法案》的划时代性质，也可以对路易十四的个人政府有自己的看法，而不需要利用任何物理或化学方面的事实。人们可以修剪蜡烛，给马套鞍，或者用手写的便条派一个仆人去，而不涉及任何科学设备。大约三百年前的每个星期四下午，一群绅士聚集在伦敦齐普赛的牛头酒馆：克里斯托弗·雷恩爵士曾是牛津大学的天文学教授，但他也设计了伦敦的军事防御和许多著名而可爱的建筑，包括圣保罗大教堂;罗伯特波义耳，他是一位伟大的物理学家，也是
Warren Weaver balanced and useful lives. The Industrial Revolution was to be faced by their great-great-grandchildren, not by them. One did not need to know any science to decide whether one wanted to be a Cavalier or a Roundhead. One could appreciate the epoch-making character of the Bill of Rights of 1689 and could have his opinions about the personal government of Louis XIV without making use of any facts from physics or chemistry. One could trim the candle or saddle the horse or dispatch a servant with a handwritten note without getting involved in any scientific equipment.On each Thursday afternoon some three hundred years ago, a group of gentlemen gathered at the Bull-Head Tavern in Cheapside, London: Sir Christopher Wren, who was primarily professor of astronomy at Oxford, but who also designed the military defenses of London and many famous and lovely buildings, including St. Paul's Cathedral; Robert Boyle, who was a great physicist and who also was the author