科学根本动力:理论兴趣还是实用精神?——兼论中国古代科学的文化之根

The Radical Motivation of Science: the Theoretical Interest or the Pragmatic Spirit?

社会的实用精神不但促使社会为科学家中的绝大多数提供职业和事业的经济保障从而维持了他们的科学工作,而且是科学家理论兴趣的主要支撑,理论兴趣是社会的实用精神衍生的副产品;在科学发展中,注重实用为科学准备了认知基础、衍生了理论问题、规定了研究方法。实用精神是科学根本动力。中国古代科学迟滞是社会实用精神严重畸形的结果。

The pragmatic spirit spurs the society to supply economic support for the majority of scientists for their career and enterprise so that the enterprise of science can be maintained, and it＇s also the main support of the theoretical interest. In the history of science development all kinds of work based on the pragmatic spirit supply the cognitive base, produce scientific problems and proscribe research methods for science. The pragmatic spirit is the radical motivation of Science. It was the fearful deformity of pragmatic spirit that leads to the lag of Chinese ancient science.