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Engineering and science must adapt to value the quality of interpersonal relationships, which are essential to teamwork. They must respect diversity of thought, especially non-technical modes, if they wish to inspire creativity.
from Lifelong learning: Science professors need leadership training.
I also learned something regarding to the reduction of theories
Even in what philosophers might regard as the simplest reductions, between different areas within physics, the detailed working-out of how one theory can contain another has been achieved only in a few cases and involves sophisticated ideas on the forefront of physics and mathematics today. This is because in all nontrivial reductions the encompassing theory is a singular perturbation […] of the less general one. The singularities are reflected in the quantities of the encompassing theory being nonanalytic […] and the nonanalyticities describe emergent phenomena in the borderland between the theories.
[A] subtle and sophisticated understanding of the relation between theories within physics requires real mathematics, and not only verbal, conceptual and logical analysis.
From Asymptotics, singularities and the reduction of theories, by Michael Berry (Logic, Methodoloy and Philosophy of Science IX, Prawitz et al (Ed.), Elsevier Science B. V. (1994)
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