Obsolescence Quotes (4 quotes)
As one of the elder members of the community of integrative biologists, I am overwhelmingly aware that during this continuing intellectual revolution, seniority is more likely to be correlated with obsolescence than with wisdom.
In 'Integrative Biology: An Organismic Biologists Point of View', Integrative and Comparative Biology (2005), 45, 330.
Ironically ones scientific obsolescence is a direct result of the creativity of his peers.
In 'Scientific innovation and creativity: a zoologists point of view', American Zoologist (1982), 22, 229.
It is Surgery that, long after it has passed into obsolescence, will be remembered as the glory of Medicine.
In Letters to a Young Doctor (1982), 51.
One precept for the scientist-to-be is already obvious. Do not place yourself in an environment where your advisor is already suffering from scientific obsolescence. If one is so unfortunate as to receive his training under a person who is either technically or intellectually obsolescent, one finds himself to be a loser before he starts. It is difficult to move into a position of leadership if ones launching platform is a scientific generation whose time is already past.
In 'Scientific innovation and creativity: a zoologists point of view', American Zoologist (1982), 22, 229.