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Issue4 No field of study can advance significantly unless outsiders bring their knowledge and experience to that field of study.
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Instead of the emphasis of outsiders, I believe the significant advance in any field must depend on new thoughts and creations. Without them, the progress of study tends to fall into stagnation, but an outsider is not a necessary vector to load these things.
The progress of a study field requires new forces. On the one hand, the long-time development may mistakenly make people regard some theories and methodologies as unchangeable things. If no one had enough courage to charge the accepted theories, such as sun is the center of the universe, time and space are constant existences, and earth is a plane, all studies involve in these things may face stagnation. On the other hand, the further development of a field often necessarily needs knowledge and technologies from other fields. When biology finished the era of observation of large creature, it required new technology, such as microscope, to explore a totally new field; and without the discovery of the function of DNA, researchers would not enable to fix a quality, in other words, to make a kind fish always grows so fast from one generation to another. To sum up, it is well known that no field of study can advance significantly unless new thoughts, theories or technology permeate in.
However, an outsider is far from the only vector. In history, many breaks come from the neophytes. Newton, Einstein, Darwin and so on formed their talented ideas when they were new persons, which may owe much to the relatively weak limitations in their thoughts as a neophyte. In addition, more often, the significant advance should owe to those have engaged in the researches. When they get touch with the new theories and technologies, they can leap forward. Yuan Longping, the father of modern hybridized cereal, for example, had even encounter unsolvable problems because of the absence of the knowledge on molecular genetics. After he got the information about this knowledge, new idea emerged, and he finally overcame the problems by himself. Especially in such an era when mutual influences among different fields become more and more frequent, the researchers in one field may pay more attention to the breakthroughs in relevant fields, and significant advances may come from the collision of the new information with their old thoughts. So, admittedly, bringing outsider is not the only way to thrive a field.
In conclusion, without the new thoughts, knowledge and technologies from other fields, it is hard for a field to get significant development, however, these needs can be met by many ways besides an outsider. So, encouraging neophytes, consciously to learn new progress in relative field and so on should be paid enough attention. |
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