每个人都能，且应该成为科学家——David Deutsch

Youtube：David Deutsch 谈”每个人都应该成为科学家”

翻译：

David Deutsch：

不管怎样，我更愿意说：每个人都可以成为科学家，也都应该成为科学家。因为成为科学家仅仅意味着想要理解这个世界，并使用唯一行之有效的方法：

允许自己困惑，允许自己出错，主动去猜想自己究竟哪里错了 —— 还有那些自以为绝不可能犯错的显赫权威们，他们又是怎么错的；

同时，绝不满足于敷衍了事的糟糕解释，无论是你自己给出的还是别人给出的。所谓糟糕的解释，就是那种换个说法也无妨（easy to vary）、而你听完后对现实的理解依然毫无长进的解释。

这就是批判性的态度。这是我们通往现实的唯一途径。运用它吧，这很有趣！

原文：

David Deutsch：

But anyway, I’d rather say everyone can and should be a scientist, because being a scientist just means wanting to understand the world and using the only method of doing so that works — namely to be puzzled, to be mistaken, to guess how one might be mistaken and how the grand authorities who can’t imagine that they could be mistaken often are, and not to be satisfied with bad explanations, one’s own or anyone’s. That is, explanations that could have been otherwise and you’d be none the wiser. That’s the critical attitude. It’s the only access to reality that we have. Use it. It’s fun!