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As the author points out below, the success of science has less to do with a particular method than with an essential attitude of the scientist. This attitude is essentially one of inquiry, experimentation and humility before the facts. Therefore, a good scientist is an honest one.True scientists do not bow to any authority but they are ever ready to modify or even abandon their ideas if adequate evidence is found contradicting them. Scientists, as human beings, may not be more honest than other others, but in their profession, they do place a high valueon honesty.
正如作者在下面的文章中指出的那样，科学的成功与其说取决于某种特定的方法，不如说是与科学家的基本态度更有关联。从根本上来讲，这种态度是一种探究、实验、尊重事实的态度。因此，一位优秀的科学家是一位诚实的科学家。真正的科学家不屈从任何权威，假若发现了与他们的见解相矛盾的足够证据，他们就会修正甚至放弃这些想法。科学家作为人，也许不比其他人更加诚实，但在他们的职业之内，科学家确实极为重视诚实。
Science and the Scientific Attitude
科学与科学志度
Paul G. Hewitt
保罗·G·休伊特
Science is the body of knowledge about nature that represents the collective efforts, insights,findings, and wisdom of the human race. Science is not something new but had its beginnings before recorded history when humans first discovered reoccurring relationships around them. Through careful observations of these relationships, they began to know nature and, because of nature's dependability, found they could make predictions to enable some control over their surroundings.
科学是关于自然的知识总体，它代表了人类的共同努力、洞察力、研究成果和智慧。科学并不是什么新的东西，在有文字记载的历史以前，当人们最初发现了在他们周围反复出现的各种关系时，就有了科学的开端。通过对这些关系的仔细观察，人们开始了解了自然，而由于自然的可靠性，人们还发现他们能够作出预测，从而有可能在某种程度上控制他们的周围环境。
