书籍介绍
这不像一本教人如何做科研的技术手册，而是一位顶尖科学家坦露自己如何"做"科学、如何"失败"、如何与自己的执念搏斗的私人谈话。Medawar 不告诉你该读哪些书，而是逼你面对更尖锐的问题：你选的题目，是否真的值得被回答？他反复警告——对某个假设一见钟情，往往白白耗费数年光阴；一个连答案都无所谓对错的问题，根本不值得投入。全书最耐人寻味之处，在于它把"科学"从神圣的发现叙事里拉出来，还原成一种需要克制、需要勇气承认"不"、需要为所选难题负责的技艺。读者记住它的，常是那份毫不掩饰的坦诚与英式幽默。它尤其适合尚未确定"这是否就是我想要的生活"的年轻人：与其说提供答案，不如说帮你判断自己能否承受这条路的苛刻与孤独。
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核心看点
- 诺奖得主梅达沃以幽默笔触，分享科研生涯的真诚建议与深刻洞察。
- 强调研究重要问题，警惕对假设的盲目热爱，倡导批判性思维与实验设计。
- 探讨科学家身份认同、学术礼仪及科研过程中的心理调适与职业成长。
读者共识
- 文笔极佳，兼具智慧与温情，被读者誉为科研人的精神伴侣与枕边书。
- 观点犀利直率，打破科研神秘感，帮助新手建立正确的科学家形象认知。
- 虽出版多年，其关于选择重要问题及保持好奇心的建议仍具极高参考价值。
精彩摘录
- "……因而先学习后工作的心理学政策无论如何是错误的。……掌握某种新技能、学习某门新学科，最大的动力在于急切地需要应用。"
- "For all who are engaged in exploratory activities."
- "in a competitive and often hostile world the best hope of security and advancement lies in the learned professions."
- "Scientists who fall deeply in love with their hypotheses are proportionately unwilling to take no as an experimental answer."
- "Many experiments attempt to refute a null hypothesis."
- "A love affair with a pet hypothesis can waste years of precious time."
- "Any scientists of any age who wants to make important discoveries must study important problems.....The problem must be such that it matters what the answer is—whether to science generally or to a mankind."
- "Anyone can try by patient experiment what happens if this or that substance be mixed in this or that proportion with some other under this or that condition."
用户评论
好书，虽然作者喜欢丢大词及各种语言，部分观点我也不完全赞同，但这些都无法抹杀其好书的本质
“Any scientist of any age who wants to make important discoveries must study important problems. Dull or piffling problems yield dull or piffling answers. It is not enough that a problem should be 'interesting', almost any problem is interesting if it is studied in sufficient depth.” 现实中大部分人还是在做dirty, shallow work啊。
Never dismayed or depressed by the subtlety of nature, the secret recesses of truth, the obscurity of things, the difficulty of experiment, the implication of causes and the infirmity of man's discerning power, being men no longer excited, either out of desire or hope to penetrate farther.
科研科研科研！
文笔极好！豆瓣用户“sterdam"提供了非常好的summary,可当作读书笔记复习。感谢！
科学家是一项终身职业
适合基础自然科学家 不大适合CS和数学
Find an important question, then make it soluble with concentration and preservation.
读PhD前一周第一次读 纪念一下 明年再读一次会不会理解更多
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