It will not solve our problems, however, until it replaces traditional prescientific views, and these are strongly entrenched. 然而这不能解决我们的问题,直到行为科学代替传统的近代科学观点,而这些是很难改变的。
Alchemy, widely practiced in the Middle Ages, was a prescientific enterprise combining chemistry, physics, metallurgy, medicine, astrology, mysticism, and religion. 盛行于中世纪的炼金术曾经是一项近代科学产生之前的富于冒险的事业,它是集化学、物理学、冶金技术、医学、秘方和宗教于一炉的秘术。
e.g.The technology of behavior will not solve our problem until it replaces traditional prescientific views. 除非它能完全取代近代科学出现前的传统思想;否则行为科学无法解决我们的问题.
” But Geoffrey Miller, an evolutionary psychologist at the University of New Mexico, says that even the slickest minds on Madison Avenue are still in the prescientific dark ages. 但是;新墨西哥大学的进化心理学家杰弗里.;米勒说,即使是麦迪逊街上最聪明的头脑,也处在科学以前的黑暗时代里。