传说有一位炼金的老人,临终前问他的两个儿子要什么东西。大儿子说:“我要你攒下的那笔金子。”二儿子说:“你把淘金、炼金的方法教给我吧。”于是老人把金子交给了大儿子,把淘金、炼金的技术教会了二儿子。老人去世后,大儿子把金子花完了,二儿子却一年年地炼出大量的金子。 如果把历史老人积累起来的科学理论比喻成金子的话,那么,获取这些理论的科学方法,就是炼金术了。在历史老人面前,我们要科学理论好呢,还是要科学方法好呢?当然,二者都是要的,但方法比理论更加重要。 理论,是符合某种客观规律的认识;方法,则是认识客观规律的技巧和手段。理论反映客体变化发展的规律; Legend has it that an alchemist's elder dad asked his two sons what they want. The eldest son said, “I want the gold you saved.” The second son said, “You taught me gold and alchemist methods.” So the old man handed over the gold to his eldest son and took the gold and alchemy skills Two sons have been taught. After the death of the elder, the eldest son finished the gold flower, but the second son once a year refined a large amount of gold. If we compare the scientific theories accumulated by the historical elders to gold, then the scientific method of acquiring these theories is alchemy. In the face of the elderly in the past, we need a good scientific theory or scientific method? Of course, both are necessary, but the method is more important than theory. Theory, is to meet some objective laws of understanding; method, it is to understand the laws and means of objective law. The theory reflects the law of the change of the object;