I hope this book will show, science seldom proceeds in the straightforward logical manner imagined by outsiders. Instead, its steps forward (and sometimes backward) are often very human events in which personalities and cultural traditions play major... Masterminds: Genius, DNA, and the Quest to Rewrite Life - Sida 12efter David Ewing Duncan - 2009 - 273 sidorBegränsad förhandsgranskning - Om den här boken
| Pertti J. Pelto, Gretel H. Pelto - 1978 - 360 sidor
...Helix (1968). In the preface he sets the tone with the comment that "As I hope this book will show, science seldom proceeds in the straightforward logical...personalities and cultural traditions play major roles" (Watson, 1968:ix). From Watson's account it appears that he and his colleagues had very little in the... | |
| Steven Kim - 1990 - 145 sidor
...of Generality: Other things being equal, pursue general or enduring topics. 6 Managing the Project Science seldom proceeds in the straightforward logical...personalities and cultural traditions play major roles. James Dewey Watson How does one approach a large, difficult problem? By definition the solution to... | |
| Burton Raffel - 2010 - 173 sidor
...in his now-famous account of the discovery of DNA, The Double Helix, "As I hope this book will show, science seldom proceeds in the straightforward logical manner imagined by outsiders. Instead, its steps forwards (and sometimes backward) are often very human events in which personalities and cultural traditions... | |
| Paul L. Skipper, John D. Groopman - 1991 - 492 sidor
...career, wrote in l967: "Science seldom proceeds in the straightforward, logical manner ... its steps are often very human events in which personalities and cultural traditions play major roles" (Watson, l968). The human genome project has been frequently compared to both the Manhattan Project... | |
| James O. Freedman - 2001 - 198 sidor
...greatest intellectual revolution of the past half-century. Watson's aim, as he writes, was to show that "science seldom proceeds in the straightforward logical...personalities and cultural traditions play major roles." Liberal learning still confronts the challenge of bridging the "gulf of mutual incomprehension" between... | |
| John Krige, Dominique Pestre - 1997 - 986 sidor
...the straightforward logical manner imagined hy outsiders. Its steps forward Iand sometimes hackward1 are often very human events in which personalities and cultural traditions play major roles."27 In promoting such an account of the sciences as ingenious play, the workshop and the studio... | |
| E. Mendelsohn, P. Weingart, R.D. Whitely - 1977 - 308 sidor
...structure of DNA" (subtitle) is non-theoretical, it does show a non-romantic view of science: "... science seldom proceeds in the straightforward logical...personalities and cultural traditions play major roles " (49). His implied question is "How did this piece of science actually happen?" at least in the experience... | |
| John Krige, Dominique Pestre - 2003 - 988 sidor
...the straigluforward logical manner imagined by outsiders. Its steps forward Iand sometimes backwardI are often very human events in which personalities and cultural traditions play major roles."27 In promoting such an account of the sciences as ingenious play, the workshop and the studio... | |
| Robert Goldbort - 2006 - 344 sidor
...in between. Watson noted in his autobiographical account of the elucidation of DNA's structure that "science seldom proceeds in the straightforward logical...which personalities and cultural traditions play major roles."4 This is equally true of scientific writing. The writing process is different for every writer... | |
| W. Noel Keyes - 2007 - 1234 sidor
...DOUBLE HELIX (1968). "Science seldom proceeds in the straightforward, logical manner ... its steps are often very human events in which personalities and cultural traditions play major roles." In 1998 the UN General Assembly recognized the Universal Declaration on the Human Genome and Human... | |
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