"A Perverted View of “Impact”"
http://www.sciencemag.org/content/340/6138/1265.full
В частности:
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One may be able to recognize good science as it happens, but significant science can only be viewed in the rearview mirror. To pretend otherwise distorts science.
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In science, faster, better, and cheaper are not as important as conceptual, novel, and careful.
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scientists must challenge the assumption that translation, rather than fundamental understanding, is the choke point of progress in the application of science to societal problems.
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Вообще, там весь текст образцово написан. ;-)
По наводке:
http://overscience-mes.livejournal.com/310777.html
В частности:
"...
One may be able to recognize good science as it happens, but significant science can only be viewed in the rearview mirror. To pretend otherwise distorts science.
...
In science, faster, better, and cheaper are not as important as conceptual, novel, and careful.
...
scientists must challenge the assumption that translation, rather than fundamental understanding, is the choke point of progress in the application of science to societal problems.
..."
Вообще, там весь текст образцово написан. ;-)
По наводке:
http://overscience-mes.livejournal.com/310777.html
