D·普赖斯教授在科学学和科学史方面的造诣很深。他一生著作很多,其中《巴比伦以来的科学》、《小科学和大科学》、《科学的科学》等名著在世界上均有一定的影响。他在1950年提出科学增长的指数规律,第一次有效地把科学史研究定量化,从而做出了具有广泛社会影响的科学学结论。1962年他又提出了“大科学”的概念,深刻地概括了现代科学的基本特征,对当代科学研究和管理都具有现实的和深远的指导意义。而《科学的科学》,精辟地阐述了科学学诞生的深刻的社会根源和内在逻辑等内容,以令人折服的道理证实了科学学存在和发展的价值。可以说,他是自贝尔纳以来,思想最 Prof. Price has profound knowledge in the history of science and science. He has a lot of books in his life, of which “science since Babylon”, “science of science and big science”, “science of science” and other famous works have a certain influence in the world. In 1950, he proposed the law of exponential growth of science and, for the first time, effectively quantified the study of the history of science and made a scientific conclusion with broad social implications. In 1962, he proposed the concept of “big science” and profoundly summarized the basic characteristics of modern science, which has realistic and far-reaching guiding significance for contemporary scientific research and management. The “science of science” has brilliantly expounded the profound social roots and internal logic of the birth of science, and convincingly convinced the value of the existence and development of science. It can be said that he is the most thought since Bernard