A metaphor will serve here: Where elite mathematicians and statisticians and theorists often serve as architects in the expanding realm of science, the remaining large majority of basic applied scientists, including a large portion of those who could be said to be of the first rank, are the ones who map the terrain, they scout the frontiers, they cut the pathways, they raise the buildings along the way.
有一个比喻: 精英数学家, 统计学家和理论家 常常是正在开拓的科技领域中的架构师, 但其他大部分的基础应用科学家, 其中有很多可称为一流水平, 他们的工作则是, 测量疆土, 开发前线, 砍树修路, 并一路盖起栋栋高楼.