I think British science is becoming more like American science - and then there is everybody else, I'm afraid.
I think British science is becoming more like American science - and then there is everybody else, I'm afraid.
American science is much more organized, much more hierarchical than British science has been.
You see, I am a very conventional scientist, really.
So I think that as science is organized in Japan at the moment it will not make a great deal of headway in innovative science. That's my own opinion.
I am a caricature of what British science is about in the way I work.
Scientists are really very conscious of the fact that they stand on the shoulders of an enormous tree of preceding workers and that their own contribution is not so enormous.
British science has a certain style and, of course, my problem is that, although I was born in Czechoslovakia, I am the archetypal British scientist.
I think you know that I classify science as British science, American science, and everybody else.
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