As historians have shown and political theorists have acknowledged: no viable collective is ever just the result of cool cost-benefit calculations. Rather, it is a shared vision of what it would mean to be part of a collective that surmounts hesitation and commands allegiance. What that collective vision should be for science already has a 350-odd-year history, and the work of the imagination is still ongoing.

中文翻译：

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一起在房间里


正如历史学家和政治理论家所承认的那样：没有一个可行的集体只是冷静的成本效益计算的结果。相反，这是一种共同的愿景，即成为一个克服犹豫并赢得忠诚的集体的一部分意味着什么。科学的集体愿景已经有 350 多年的历史，而想象力的工作仍在继续。