Proper Studies and the Art of the Soluble

Autor: L. R. Taylor
Rok vydání: 2008
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Zdroj: Ibis. 133:9-23
ISSN: 0019-1019
DOI: 10.1111/j.1474-919x.1991.tb07664.x
Popis: The Art of the Soluble ‘No scientist is admired for failing in the attempt to solve problems that lie beyond his competence. If politics is the art of the possible, research is surely the art of the soluble. Both are immensely practical-minded affairs. Good scientists study the most important problems they think they can solve. It is, after all, their professional business to solve problems, not merely to grapple with them. That is why some of the most important biological problems have not yet appeared on the agenda of practical research.’ Proper Studies ‘Atoms are immeasurably less complicated than man. And yet nobody who is not professionally a physicist would venture to discuss the nature of atoms. Where man is concerned. the case is different.’
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