What the newly-type organization as "laboratories" means to the production of science knowledge was like what "factory" means to the industrialized production.

“实验室”这样的新型组织形式对于科学知识生产的意义，犹如“工厂”对于工业化生产的意义。

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He also wanted to create what he called a hit factory, an idea he got from working for the Ford Motor Company.

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When the bread didn't rise, I started wondering what yeast was so I went to visit a yeast factory."

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"Wage increases in one particular factory, no matter how large, are unlikely to be representative of what's going on in the rest of the country."

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Production capacity numbers usually describe to what the factory equipment could produce if they operate around the clock, but they almost never do that because they get taken offline for maintenance and other reasons.

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