The Big Crunch

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The following article is an edited version of a plenary lecture given at Pittcon in New Orleans on March 8, 1995. Previous versions of this article have been published as "Scientific Ph.D. Problems," American Scholar, 62 (1993), and "Scientific Elites and Scientific Illiterates," Ethics, Values and the Promise of Science, Forum Proceedings, Sigma Xi, The Science Research Society (February 25--26, 1993) p. 61, and Engineering and Science 56 (Spring 1993) p. 22. David Goodstein is vice provost, professor of physics and applied physics, and the Frank J. Gilloon Distinguished Teaching and Service Professor at the California Institute of Technology.

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