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Article #1535Competition in science
From: Tony Zador
Date: Thu, 06 Dec 1990 05:26
Date: Thu, 06 Dec 1990 05:26
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"Now, Martin, you must hasten and publish your results. Get right to it. In fact
you should have done it before this. Throw your material together as rapidly as pos-
sible and send a note in to the Society for Experimental Biology and Medicine, to
be published in their next proceedings."
"But I'm not ready to publish! I want to have every loophole plugged up before I
announce anything whatever!"
"Nonsense! That attitude is old-fashioned. This is no longer an age of parochial-
ism but of competition, in art and science just as much as in commerce--co-opera-
tion with your own group, but with those outside it, competition to the death! Plug
up the holes thoroughly, later, but we can't have somebody else stealing a march on
us. Remember you have your name to make. The way to make it is by working with
me--toward the greatest good for the greatest number."
from Arrowsmith by Sinclair Lewis (1924).
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Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!yale!cs.yale.edu!zador-anthony From: zador-anthony@cs.yale.edu (Tony Zador) Newsgroups: sci.bio Subject: Competition in science Message-ID: <27626@cs.yale.edu> Date: 6 Dec 90 05:26:46 GMT Sender: news@cs.yale.edu Organization: Yale University Computer Science Dept., New Haven, CT 06520-2158 Lines: 20 Nntp-Posting-Host: systemsx-gw.cs.yale.edu Originator: zador@sunny.CS.Yale.Edu