Chapter 90 scientific battle

Research all over the world is competing with each other to be the first to publish expected discoveries, but real discoveries cannot be expected. Chakaf is one of the founders of today's molecular biology. He has considerable research on nucleic acid and DNA, but the double helix structure of DNA was first discovered by two boys who asked him for help, which made him and Nobel Prize winner. The medical award was missed.The academic circles believed that his luck was bad, and complained about him, and the always bitter Chakaf became more and more bitter in the future. Several books he wrote in his later years put forward quite severe criticisms of the goals and progress of science, often with the rationality of the devil. Lectures in Europe on the topic of dreams.

He said that major breakthroughs in science or other fields are accidental, not done for a clear purpose. When Fleming walked into his laboratory and saw a circle on a petri dish, he discovered Penicillin, this is something no one in the past could have dreamed of.Discoveries that lead to significant results usually fall into this category.There is a joke that the former king of Persia gathered his soldiers and announced: We are going to have a seven-year war!In the beginning, he couldn't say the words.Likewise, we cannot start doing research and say what we are going to discover in three years.Too many researches today are planned discoveries. Research by analogy finds some predictable things, but real discoveries are unexpected.

Because many people have the same expectation under the same analogy, the result is a ridiculous battle in the field of science.After preliminary communication with other people's research results, people hurriedly called their graduate students to conduct the experiment immediately, in order to publish or obtain a patent. But true science is also an art, and scientists are artists too.Charcalf said sharply: He had never heard that Shelley and Keats had competed with each other, trying to be the first to write their feelings about a certain encounter in life. Although these words are all complaints against Watson and Crick who first published the structure of DNA helices, they do have some truth.