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There is a growing mountain of research. But there is increased evidence that
we are being bogged down today as specialization extends. The investigator is
staggered by the findings and conclusions of thousands of other
workers—conclusions which he cannot find time to grasp, much less to remember, as they appear. Yet specialization becomes increasingly necessary for progress, and the effort to bridge between disciplines is correspondingly superficial.

Professionally our methods of transmitting and reviewing the results of
research are generations old and by now are totally inadequate for their
purpose. If the aggregate time spent in writing scholarly works and in reading
them could be evaluated, the ratio between these amounts of time might well be
startling