Volume 26, Number 21 & 22 · January 24, 1980
The Middle Way
By Stephen Jay Gould
Advice to a Young Scientist
by P.B. Medawar
Harper and Row, 109 pp., $8.95
Offering unsolicited advice must rank among the most difficult and unpromising of literary forms. Consider poor Polonius. His words are actually quite sensible, even though the man himself is usually played as a garrulous old fool. Laertes, in any case, spends the entire conversation trying to depart gracefully.
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