Arbour lights
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Amongst the theoreticians there was a subspecies who interacted with experimentalists — these theorists tried to make sure that their ideas were testable and that someone tested them. Preeminent amongst these was Francis Crick who wrote all the quotes above shown in red italics (taken from Crick’s autobiographical book What Mad Pursuit: A Personal View of Scientific Discovery; Basic Books, New York, 1990). It is remarkable that almost an entire species of scientist can arise and die out in such a short period, but it has happened before — fashion influences young people too much when they choose their careers so that, at any time and in any one field, there are either too many, or too few scientists. Of course there are still theoreticians working in developmental biology, but they are few in number. So few that I think we need more, but only if they learn the lessons enumerated by Crick — otherwise they will follow their predecessors into oblivion. Indeed just now there seems to be a new wave of theorists arriving, and most are recruits from physics, mathematics and computing. I hope they won’t mind me warning them that they would be wise not to try to answer the problems of animal development with their heads alone. They must use their hands as well.
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ورودعنوان ژورنال:
- Current Biology
دوره 14 شماره
صفحات -
تاریخ انتشار 2004