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From: zador-anthony@cs.yale.edu (Tony Zador)
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Subject: Competition in science
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Date: 6 Dec 90 05:26:46 GMT
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        "Now, Martin, you must hasten and publish your results. Get right to it. In fact 
you should have done it before this. Throw your material together as rapidly as pos-
sible and send a note in to the Society for Experimental Biology and Medicine, to 
be published in their next proceedings."


        "But I'm not ready to publish! I want to have every loophole plugged up before I 
announce anything whatever!"

 
        "Nonsense! That attitude is old-fashioned. This is no longer an age of parochial-
ism but of competition, in art and science just as much as in commerce--co-opera-
tion with your own group, but with those outside it, competition to the death! Plug 
up the holes thoroughly, later, but we can't have somebody else stealing a march on 
us. Remember you have your name to make. The way to make it is by working with 
me--toward the greatest good for the greatest number."


from Arrowsmith by Sinclair Lewis (1924).