Challenging our comfort levels: lifestyles, research, and the ongoing legacy of the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation.

摘要

Life unfolds as a series of nonlinear biological and environmental interactions mediated through semi-permeable membranes. Complexity is its character. Research is designed as carefully crafted observations filtered through semi-artificial controls. Simplicity is its aim. The tension is clear and the consequence can be limiting. Science startles when it finds power in singularity, but it matures when it reveals the nature and impact of multiplicity. Both as individuals and as scientists, patterns of behavior to which the dominant incentives have been directed over the past half century have left us sluggish in our lifestyles and constrained in the reach of our research.