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It is clear that we cannot go up another two orders of magnitude as we have climbed the last five. If we did, we should have two scientists for every man, woman, child, and dog in the population, and we should spend on them twice as much money as we had. Scientific doomsday is therefore less than a century distant.
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Scientists have a strong urge to write papers but only a relatively mild one to read them.
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The ivory tower of the artist can be a one-man cell; that of the scientist must contain many apartments so that he may be housed among his peers.
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His passion was to count everything and reduce it to statistics.
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Derek J. de Solla Price
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Born:
January 22, 1922
Died:
September 3, 1983
(aged 61)
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Derek John de Solla Price was a physicist, historian of science, and information scientist, credited as the father of scientometrics.
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