I had always thought it was Henry Kissinger who said that academic politics were so intense because the stakes were so low. Bartlett's Familiar Quotations says this is a common misapprehension and that the real originator was the American political scientist Wallace Stanley Sayre. The quote attributed to Sayre is less pithy, so perhaps he came up with the idea and Mr Kissinger refined it. Who knows?
「學術政治爭鬥如此熾熱,是因爲爭論的主題無關緊要。」我一直以爲這句話是亨利•季辛吉(Henry Kissinger)說的。但巴特利特(Bartlett)的《名言金句》(Familiar Quotations)說,這是一種普遍的誤解,真正的作者是美國政治學家華勒斯•斯坦利•塞爾(Wallace Stanley Sayre)。歸到塞爾名下的那句名言不及這句簡練精闢,所以或許這個想法是他的,而季辛吉對語言進行了加工。誰知道呢?
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