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1.
Forty years into
the government
’
s
multibillion-dollar fight, said
Barker,
cancer
survival
rates
had
barely
budged
.
The
hope
now
was
that
physicists could bring
some radical new ideas to the
table
。
2.
an opportunity
to contribute entirely new concepts and ways of
thinking
3.
We
’
re after fresh
insights
4.
embark on practically a new career
5.
original
workshop
metamorphosed
into
a
network
of
12
Physical
Sciences
–
Oncology
Centers
6.
a
major player in the physics-meets-cancer effort
as a whole
7.
Canc
er gives Davies a new
realm in which to exercise what many
colleagues regard as his greatest
talent: asking
‘
dumb
’
questions
that provoke
fresh ways of thinking about a problem.
8.
But he is not
afraid to ask a very naive question that
gets at the
heart of the
matter
。
9.
I often joke
that my main qualification for cancer research is
that
I am
unencumbered by
any prior knowledge of the subject.
10.
“
It takes someone like Paul,
constantly nagging, asking disruptive
questions, to get people to take a
fresh look at their assumptions.
11.
austerity
that prevailed in the years
12.
embody a
hidden order behind the surface complexity of the
Univers
e.
13.
the brain is made of atoms, and atoms
follow the laws of physics
—
so how can we have free will?
14.
He
eventually
summarized
the
field
’
s
accomplishments
as
coauthor
of
a
classic monograph
15.
his interests were not easily
confined
—
and he
was beginning to
develop a parallel
outlet
for them.
16.
a
long-standing conundrum
17.
why
does
time
seem
to
flow
only
in
one
direction
—
towards
the
future
18.
Whereas early titles mirrored
Davies
’
research in pure
physics and
cosmology, dealing with the
physics of black holes, the unification
of
forces,
and
quantum
theory,
later
ones
have
reflected
his
widening
interests
19.
Most
people
dismissed
the
idea
as
total
nonsense,
in
rather
blunt
terms
20.
tip the
balance in favor of
21.
who was
looking to overhaul the
university
’
s departmentbased
hierarchy in favour of a more
interdisciplinary approach
22.
challenge the
status quo
23.
those rare thinkers who could shake up
the status-quo thinking in
academia
24.
But that very
power, he says, has often beguiled cancer
researchers
into focusing on individual
genes and all the other pieces that go
wrong, instead of how the pieces come
together into a complex whole.
25.
all very,
very basic. My level of ignorance was embarrassing
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