期刊名称：The new Atlantis: A Journal of Technology & Society
印刷版ISSN：1543-1215
电子版ISSN：1555-5569
出版年度：2015
期号：45
出版社：Ethics and Public Policy Center
摘要：There are no scientists any more. Of course there are more persons than ever before who practice one scientific discipline or another, but they do not call themselves scientists plain and simple. To do so would offend against the clannish pride in expertise that is so often a hallmark of modern intellectual endeavor in just about any field you can name. Specialties and sub-specialties are abundant and scrupulously differentiated. One does not expect a cosmologist to have as much as a passing acquaintance with paleobotany. For that matter, a particle physicist adept in string theory might have difficulty making conversation with an acolyte of eternal recurrence; after their common undergraduate immersion in introductory physics, these experts pursued divergent professional paths and now speed ever faster and farther away from each other, as the universe of knowledge, and especially of the most abstruse theories, expands at an ever increasing rate.
