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Scientists value systematic procedures which are
designed in accordance with objective criteria for
effectiveness. Personal spontaneity is not normative with
regards to laboratory behavior! Virtually all laboratory
steps must be taken in accordance with logical
considerations. It is only very rarely that some creative
insight/vision occurs outside the bounds of deductive
logical consideration, and contributes positively to the
progress of the laboratory work. Even creative steps
occur within the framework of a tightly disciplined and
structured effort. The scientist's professional life is
one of following the broad outlines of rather well-defined
routines; sometimes piecing different routines together
in new ways. Creativity is often the novel piecing
together in a new way some routines which had not been
connected before. Thus even creativity involves
disciplined routines. Expression of primary emotions,
feelings and desires is not an integral part of the
scientist's life. They may be ignored without serious
impairment of the scientist's professional activity.
As scientists become accultrated to their
professional sub-culture they tend to fall into routine
patterns of behavior. Their lives tend to become complex
patterns of routines---coping with new problems consists
of developing new routines and combinations of routines
with which to respond. Cleverness has to do with
developing efficient new routines through which to respond
to new situations so as to achieve previously selected
consequences. Knowledge has to do with being able to
anticipate consequences, computing the cost/benefit ratio
for the consequences of various possible response
routines, and selecting the routines which will occasion
the most desirable cost/benefit ratio for some decisive
group.
The professional valuing of routines will often carry
over into non-professional behavior. Scientists' private
lives may tend towards following routines which are not
examined in any non-routine way. Thus scientists may fall
into professional ruts and not realize that they are not
making any significant decisions about the course of their
lives. They may just be following the course dictated to
them by their immediate environment, the ruts into which
they have fallen.
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