上句见：Day29
《哲学的故事》的第30句：序言中的第3段第6句。

Shall we be more technical? Science is analytical description, philosophy is synthetic interpretation. Science wishes to resolve the whole into parts, the organism into organs, the obscure into the known. It does not inquire into the values and ideal possibilities of things, nor into their total and final significance; it is content to show their present actuality and operation, it narrows its gaze resolutely to the nature and process of things as they are. The scientist is as impartial as Nature in Turgenev’s poem: he is as interested in the leg of a flea as in the creative throes of a genius. But the philosopher is not content to describe the fact; he wishes to ascertain its relation to experience in general, and thereby to get at its meaning and its worth; he combines things in interpretive synthesis; he tries to put together, better than before, that great universe-watch which the inquisitive scientist has analytically taken apart.Science tells us how to heal and how to kill; it reduces the death rate in retail and then kills us wholesale in war; but only wisdom--desire coördinated in the light of all experience – can tell us when to heal and when to kill. To observe processes and to construct means is science; to criticize and coördinate ends is philosophy: and because in these days our means and instruments have multiplied beyond our interpretation and synthesis of ideals and ends, our life is full of sound and fury, signifying nothing. For a fact is nothing except in relation to desire; it is not complete except in relation to a purpose and a whole. Science without philosophy, facts without perspective and valuation, cannot save us from havoc and despair. Science gives us knowledge, but only philosophy can give us wisdom.
浙江大学版本：然而，哲学家不满足于描述事实，他希望将事实与经历结合起来，从而得出意义和价值；他通过诠释性的综合建立事物间的联系，以一种比以前更好的方式，尝试把被科学家们大卸八块的伟大宇宙重新组装起来。

解析

这句主要讲哲学家的角色。不同于科学家注重描述事实，哲学家更想事实与经验结合起来，更想建立事物间的联系，更想整合事物以取得更为宏观的视角。
1、"But the philosopher is not content to describe the fact;…"
But由科学家转向哲学家。通过取反阅读，可以与本段的第2句对应，science是门description，它来describe the fact。而哲学家则不满足于此。
2、“...he wishes to ascertain its relation to experience in general, and thereby to get at its meaning and its worth;…"
ascertain： to learn or find out (something, such as information or the truth)

Better beancounting would make it easier to ascertain what might be better off in private hands.一个好的会计核算制度会让人们更容易确定哪些公房私买之后 比较合算。
in general: as a whole
It had an impact not just on young people, but on people in general. [=on all or most people]
thereby： = by which，by means of that act, those words, that document, etc.相对于文言文“于此”
We need to read books, and thereby to know the knowledge.
He signed the contract, thereby forfeiting his right to the property.
他希望确定事实是大多数经验之间的关系，从而找到它的意义与价值。

3、”...he combines things in interpretive synthesis;…"
Interpretive对应本段中第2句的interpretation,
他以诠释性合成的方式来组合各个东西；
4、 “...he tries to put together, better than before, that great universe-watch which the inquisitive scientist has analytically taken apart."
put together与combine类似，表组合，组装
better than before: 插入语，句子悬停，让读者注意后面的东西。
universe-watch“宇宙手表”用了比喻手法，把科学家的拆解与哲学家的组装描述得更有画面感。
inquisitive scientist：tending to ask questions : having a desire to know or learn more

I'm the head cook now. But I was an inquisitive young scullion once.我现在做了掌勺师傅，但以前也曾经是个爱刨根问底的洗碗小工。
他将那个被好奇的科学者为分析而拆开的伟大“宇宙手表”零件尝试再组装，以使其变得比原来更好。能比原来好，那是因为他用了interpretive synthesis。

他希望确定事实是大多数经验之间的关系，从而找到它的意义与价值； 他以诠释性合成的方式来组合各个东西；他将那些被爱刨根问底的科学家为分析而拆开的伟大“宇宙手表”零件尝试再组装，以使其变得比原来更好。