期刊名称：Hyle : International Journal for Philosophy of Chemistry
印刷版ISSN：1433-5158
出版年度：2003
卷号：9
期号：1
页码：7-10
出版社：HYLE Publications, Karlsruhe and University of Karlsruhe
摘要：Pleasure is constructed by human beings out of anything they do – in the best and worst of circumstances. I remember in the months after the war (my war, World War II), what fun there was in going with a group of boys and girls into a bombed-out house, the stairs partially collapsed, and sifting through the littered debris (treasures to us) of those who had lived there be-fore. Or exploring a bunker, despite its pervasive smell of excrement. Who knows, one might find a bullet, get the powder out of it, set that on fire. In Ithaca, in a definitely not bombed out laboratory, a graduate student has been trying still another solvent to get that Michael addition to go. It refuses, and she is afraid to ask her advisor for still another suggestion; he had made two (neither worked), and it's her research after all. So she tries again – for that is the fate of graduate students – leaving the solution to cool overnight. In the morning there are lime-green crystals. Hard sought, they are immediately beautified. And the research plan that led to them is imbued, ex post facto, with beauty.
