Pardoxes of progress

“Progressive research is built on previous thinking, on what we already know, and we want to make progress. Don’t always reinvent the wheel. We intend to speak to a real problem. We don’t want to deal with research questions which are not critical. And one of the big challenges in the academy has been to address big problems that we face as a society in the world. So if you do really good research, good defined as theoretical but also relevant, rigorous but also interesting, you have to recognize that research must combine the qualities that are embedded in these paradoxes.”

(Steven Floyd)