jeudi 27 février 2014

Scientifiques, qui êtes-vous ? Scientists, who are you?


Deux pepites trouvées un peu par hasard :

Scientists are people of very dissimilar temperaments doing different things in very different ways. Among scientists are collectors, classifiers and compulsive tidiers-up; many are detectives by temperament and many are explorers; some are artists and others artisans. There are poet-scientists and philosopher-scientists and even a few mystics.
PETER MEDAWAR, Pluto's Republic, Oxford University Press, New York, 1982, p. 116.



Of all the traits which qualify a scientist for citizenship in the republic of science, I would put a sense of responsibility as a scientist at the very top. A scientist can be brilliant, imaginative, clever with his hands, profound, broad, narrow—but he is not much as a scientist unless he is responsible.
ALVIN WEINBERG, "The Obligations of Citizenship in the Republic of Science," Minerva, 16:1-3, 1978

Et vous ? Qu'en pensez vous aujourd'hui ?

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