Paradigm shifts, paradigm drifts
This essay is from 2009 and much of this still feels novel. I guess paradigms take time to shift. Or is it gradually, then suddenly? “I present here examples of what in my mind constitute paradigm shifts and drifts in microbiology. Each of them can be reduced to a generalization that, let us hope, is both gracefully simple and exceedingly far-reaching.” | learn more