On the subject of scientists being violent, I really like this little soundbite from Peter Watts (http://www.rifters.com/crawl/?p=886): "This is how it works: you put your model out there in the coliseum, and a bunch of guys in white coats kick the shit out of it. If it’s still alive when the dust clears, your brainchild receives conditional acceptance. It does not get rejected. This time."
I took the Crystal depiction of universities to be satire of the current system, but in-world, I've always wondered how such a system could possibly produce any new science – they seemed to have lost the sense of what science is about. I like to think that was the point.
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Date: 2009-12-02 05:41 am (UTC)I took the Crystal depiction of universities to be satire of the current system, but in-world, I've always wondered how such a system could possibly produce any new science – they seemed to have lost the sense of what science is about. I like to think that was the point.