Like Bacon, we value utility because it seems to lend credibility to the claims that science makes about the nature of the world – science is true because it works. But, at the same time, we won’t allow science to be reduced to practical utility, because that would destroy its intellectual status, as well as the intellectual status of scientists themselves, and would prevent science from giving explanations.
但我们也不能盲从培根。像培根一样，我们因致用能增加科学的可信度而看重致用——科学因致用而真实。但与此同时，我们又不能允许将科学等同于实际应用，因为这样就破坏了科学和科学家们的思想地位，从而妨碍科学对自然现象做出解释。因此科学仍必须保持其自然哲学的本来面目。