Those who have handled sciences have been either men of experiment or men of dogmas. The men of experiment are like the ant, they only collect and use; the reasoners resemble spiders, who make cobwebs out of their own substance. But the bee takes a middle course: it gathers its material from the flowers of the garden and of the field, but transforms and digests it by a power of its own. Not unlike this is the true business of philosophy; for it neither relies solely or chiefly on the powers of the mind, nor does it take the matter which it gathers from natural history and mechanical experiments and lay it up in the memory whole, as it finds it, but lays it up in the understanding altered and digested. Therefore from a closer and purer league between these two faculties, the experimental and the rational (such as has never yet been made), much may be hoped.
The New Organon Francis Bacon
社會學家真的很有趣，來講歷史社會學的人卻不鼓勵大家做歷史社會學。
社會學家喜歡真情流露，那有點難堪卻很真實。
因為老師認為社會學作為一門現代出生的學科，便是在探究現代社會。
因此即便是歷史社會學，耶應該要與現代有關連。
這堂課，我覺得唯一可以留下的是他引用培根的話
做學問，要如蜜蜂一樣，採完花粉之後經過咀嚼，吐出蜂蜜。
如螞蟻，只會做苦工。如蜘蛛，只會作繭自縛。
重要的在於咀嚼過程，這便是Max Weber所謂賦予意義的過程。
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