Smart versus Big Minded

These days I stambled upon an excerpt about the indian neuroscientist Ramachandran and I was hooked on a passage. It is about the Ramachandran passage through Standford. I will just reproduce it here:

The idea that science were problem-driven rather than technique-driven is an astonishing conclusion for me. More than once, I’ve been hounted by this idea without being able to express it.

The point here is that in the current industry, there are many tools needed for an application. Looking for a necessity. Techniques flourish in academy but that lacks a true application. People learn it because they are told so and jump into the reality trying to fit the reality in their conceptualizations of how the tecnique must be applyied.