What's the method of science? You have a theory; what do you do? Put it to the test.
科学的方法是什么,现在有一个理论;,准备怎么办,验证它。
Do you like the zoo and the Academy of Science?
你喜欢动物园和科学院吗?
But, I think what most of you, actually having MIT come to MIT, have probably realized is sometimes it's nice to major in a science, because you can't just pick up a reaction and do it in your kitchen on the weekend, where as you can sometimes join a book group and do that.
但我认为对你们大多数人来说,既然来了,可能已经意识到最好是主修一门科学,因为你不能在你,周末的时候在厨房里做化学实验,然后你就可以参加一个读书俱乐部。
Now, this is an important lesson in what you do in science.
现在是你们科学教育中,的重要一课。
We're not going to have time to do them in this course, but if you take a class in the Political Science department on voting and on elections, on modeling elections, you will see that both of these have been modeled and discussed in great detail.
我们在这门课上就不去探讨它们了,但是如果你们选修了政治学专业的,有关投票与选举模型的课程的话,你们会发现这两个因素都可以模型化,而且都会有非常详细的介绍
You could do one of these little boxes they do in sociology or political science, and have these arrows running all over the place.
你可以把这些画成图示,像在社会学和政治学课上那样,把箭头画得到处都是
But I went away from political science because I realized that there are a lot of parallels between what you do in politics and what you do in government and writing policy and laws and what you do in programming.
但我放弃了政治学,因为我意识到,在政界和在政府里,编制政策和法律,和编程虽然非常相似。
Well what can you do? Well you can promise miracles, there's very little control over these sorts of things, you can distort the science, you can lie about what you do and nobody will come after you.
那么你会做什么呢,你可以承诺奇迹,这很难给予控制,你可以歪曲科学,你可以说谎,隐瞒你的作为,也没有人会找你麻烦
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