 | Arne A. Wyller - 1996 - 288 páginas
...Professor Erwin Schrodinger. In his classic short treatise What Is Life? published in 1944, he states: A scientist is supposed to have a complete and thorough knowledge at first hand, of some subject, and therefore is usually expected not to write on any topic of which he is not a master. This... | |
 | Freeman Dyson - 1999 - 114 páginas
...and one is from Unamuno, in Spanish. As a sample of his style I quote the opening sentences of his preface: A scientist is supposed to have a complete...knowledge, at first hand, of some subjects, and therefore he is usually expected not to write on any topic of which he is not a master. This is regarded as a... | |
 | John Abbott, Terry Ryan - 2000 - 290 páginas
...Schroedinger (1887—1961) anticipated today's difficulty with synthesising knowledge when he wrote, "A scientist is supposed to have a complete and thorough knowledge at first-hand of some subject, and therefore is usually expected not to write on any topic on which he... | |
 | William H. Cropper - 2004 - 518 páginas
...Is Life? He felt that he should apologize for his lack of expertise in some aspects of his subject: A scientist is supposed to have a complete and thorough...at first hand, of some subjects, and, therefore, is expected not to write on any topic of which he is not a master. This is regarded as a matter of noblesse... | |
 | Denis Alexander - 2003 - 518 páginas
...kind of apology which Erwin Schrodinger (1887-1961) wrote in his introduction to What is Life in 1944: A scientist is supposed to have a complete and thorough...expected not to write on any topic of which he is not a master.'2 Drawing on so many different disciplines is a dangerous business for the non-specialist and... | |
 | Amanda Spink, Charles Cole - 2006 - 270 páginas
...book preface, cited by Stonier: "A scientist is supposed to have a complete and thorough knowledge ... of some subjects, and, therefore, is usually expected...to write on any topic of which he is not a master". Schrodinger, however, argues that: ". . . The spread, both in width and depth of the multifarious branches... | |
 | Ingo Müller - 2007 - 320 páginas
...(1945) p. 75. In writing this chapter on metabolism I disregard Schrodinger' s warning that a scientist is usually expected not to write on any topic of which he is not a master.3 But then, Schrodinger did not heed that warning himself. And the subject is interesting, and... | |
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A Scientist is supposed to have a complete and thorough knowledge, at first hand, of some subjects and, therefore, is usually expected not to write on any topic of which he is not a master. 