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‘The metaphor of the research trail - or the alternative phrase that I [Larry Holmes] have adopted, the ‘investigative pathway’ - both describes and can contribute to our understanding of the personal trajectories of individual sci- entists within the larger investigative movements in which they take part. The double face of each branch of science - as, on the one hand, a collective “long march” by a group of specialists sharing a discipline and pushing ahead to- gether along a “frontier”, and, on the other hand, as the private struggle of each individual within that group to find a distinct place and to produce original dis- coveries, conclusions, or other claims through which he can make recognized contributions to the movement - provides the creative tension around which all our stories about the ‘progress’ of science somehow revolve.’
F. Larry Holmes (2004)1
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