05
Mar
2009
by Walt Warnick in Personal Perspectives
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As Isaac Newton said, "If I have seen further than others, it is by standing on the shoulders of giants." Newton was not alone on those shoulders. Everyone in science, from his day to ours, draws on the work of others.
Science is all about the flow of knowledge: New methods, instruments, techniques, concepts, results, questions, data, etc. The flows are endless, complex and in all directions. It is rightly called a diffusion process. This concept is reflected in a host of statutes that form the legislative basis for OSTI.
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