Mike Schirman

I will quote John Ziman, (who also credits pattern recognition as the hallmark of human intelligence): “Some degree of sectarianism can often be observed within science itself. The experts in a particular field can become so indoctrinated and so committed to the current paradigm that their critical and imaginative powers are inhibited, and they cannot ‘see beyond their own noses’. In these circumstances scientific progress may come to a halt – knowledge may even regress – until intellectual intruders come through the interdisciplinary frontiers and look at the field without preconceptions.”