但是，作为一名在他的学生中很受欢迎的教授，并主张通识教育 - 托恩发现自己在潮汐上游泳。学术界正在朝着更加专业的知识迈进，用越来越密集的术语表达。
(But as a professor who was popular with his students-and who advocated general education-Thorne found himself swimming against the tide. The academic world was marching toward ever more specialized knowledge, expressed in ever more dense jargon.)