As we anticipate lock-downs.. Cambridge had to shut down in 1665 due to plague. Newton spent the next two years in confinement in Woolsthorpe. During that time, he discovered Calculus and the laws of Optics. This was the greatest intellectual productivity in human history..
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@RMedzhitov
Originality needs imagination, that in turn needs time and an adequate environment... So you convinced me; I can't wait to do my isolation, (But wait... what should I do with my adorable non sleeping baby?)
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@JChrisPires
Guess who didn't have small children also locked-down at home that he needed to parent ...
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@RMedzhitov
I suspect that it will be a substantial increase in submissions of papers and proposals.
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@PracheeAC
thank you. we need this kind of optimism and inspiration in times like these.
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@RMedzhitov
I had a (rather unpopular) suggestion to initiate a preventive lockdown for researchers at the actual institute, with similar inspiration
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@RMedzhitov
I was just thinking that one silver lining of social distancing will be the gift of internal reflection, long hours of unabated thinking..
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@RMedzhitov
At what cost? If modern scientists want to lock themselves away from the world they can go ahead. They don’t have to wish for a ‘plague’
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