Networked science has the potential to speed up dramatically the rate of discovery across all of science.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
If networked science is to reach its potential, scientists will have to embrace and reward the open sharing of all forms of scientific knowledge, not just traditional journal publication. Networked science must be open science.
Every scientist would like to be able to move through research faster, to spend less time and money acquiring material or disseminating it.
Most great advances have been a collaboration. That is the joy of science for me.
The most wonderful discovery made by scientists is science itself.
Scientific innovations continually provide us with new means of analyzing the finds.
When I started my Ph.D. at the University of California, San Diego, I was told that it would be difficult to make a new discovery in biology because it was all known. It all seems so absurd now.
Knowledge is now accepted as the best we humans can do at the moment, but with the hope that we will turn out to be wrong - and thus to advance our knowledge. What's happening to networked knowledge seems to make it much closer to the scientific idea of what knowledge is.
A number of scientists with greatly different backgrounds can come up with completely different assessments. The discussions or controversies are endless. Once a year, we try to bring the most important discoverers together to exchange their experiences and knowledge.
There is no greater impediment to progress in the sciences than the desire to see it take place too quickly.
The pace of discovery is going unbelievably fast.