¶ Sweepout in Scientific Exploration
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Sweepout in Scientific Exploration:
“Individual specialists tend to go off and get themselves into finer and finer focus, to a one degree focus and then a half-degree focus and then to minutes and seconds of fineness of focus. However, something happens in the area of specialization, as you get more and more men into microbiology, for instance, with each one of them taking a specialty there are enough of them so they began to make a sweepout sum totally and together they began to sweep out a fairly large sector. With one specialty, the total number crowding one another in order to be specialists, began to use a little larger angle. . . . Men didn’t have very large microscopes or telescopes yesterday so when they were specialists they stayed within the area they could see; and this must have taken them into very different parts of the Universe and they were far apart.”
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- Oregon Lecture #4, pp. 120-121. 6 Jul’62
