“Over the past fifty years or so, scientists have allowed the conventions of expression available to them to become entirely too confining.” YearsPastExpressionScientistAvailableFiftyConventionsOver The Past Book:Boojums All the Way Through: Communicating Science in a Prosaic Age Source: Boojums All the Way Through: Communicating Science in a Prosaic Age
“Over the past fifty years or so, scientists have allowed the conventions of expression available to them to become entirely too confining, too confining. The insistence on bland impersonality and the widespread indifference to anything like the display of a unique human author in scientific exposition, have transformed the reading of most scientific papers into an act of tedious drudgery.” YearsHumansPastScienceReadingExpressionPaperUniqueScientistTransformationAvailableIndifferenceFiftyConventionsTransformedDisplayPapersTediousOver The PastInsistenceBlandDrudgeryImpersonality Author:David Mermin
