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I don't think academic writing ever was wonderful. However, science used to be much less specialized.

~Stephen Jay Gould

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There wasn't much technical terminology, and then, most academics are not trained in writing. And there is what is probably worse than ever before, the growing use of professional jargon.

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Goethe died in 1832. As you know, Goethe was very active in science. In fact, he did some very good scientific work in plant morphology and mineralogy. But he was quite bitter at the way in which many scientists refused to grant him a hearing because he was a poet and therefore, they felt, he couldn't be serious.

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People perceive me as a commodity. They just don't think anything of asking for five minutes of my time. It never occurs to them that if they're asking for it and another thousand people are asking, I don't have 1,000 five minutes to give.

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If I don't make it, I'll be very sad that there are things I didn't do, but I'm happy that I've done what I have.

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Biography

Nationality: American

Type: Scientist

Born: September 10th, 1941

Died: May 20th, 2002

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