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Finally, and what may be a fitting end for this recounting, there is a quotation of Francis Bacon's that gives a poetic interpretation of creativity in the scientist: "A scientist is neither an 'ant,' storing what it finds lying about ready-made, nor a 'spider,' spinning a web out of what its entrails secrete. He is a bee, visiting innumerable flowers and collecting the nectar it finds in them; but storing not this nectar in its crude state but the honey into which it turns."
最后，或许这是这段叙述的一个恰当结尾，弗朗西斯·培根有一句引语，它对科学家的创造力进行了富有诗意的诠释：“科学家既不是一只‘蚂蚁’，只是储存现成摆在那里的东西；也不是一只‘蜘蛛’，用自己内脏分泌的东西织网。他是一只蜜蜂，访遍无数花朵，采集其中找到的花蜜；但储存的并非这种未经加工的花蜜，而是它转化而成的蜂蜜。”
