But while I accept specialization in the practice, I reject it utterly in the theory of science. — Claude Bernard Copy Share Image
There is also hope that even in these days of increasing specialization there is a unity in the human experience. — Allan McLeod Cormack Copy Share Image
A human being should be able to change a diaper, plan an invasion, (cont. Specialization is for insects. — Robert A. Heinlein Copy Share Image
“Specialization, concentration and consistency is the key to outstanding performance... Love your zone!” — Israelmore Ayivor Copy Share Image
Nowhere has specialization penetrated so deeply into the building professions as North America. — Arthur Erickson Copy Share Image
God and the Devil are an effort after specialisation and division of labour. — Samuel Butler Copy Share Image
The main insight learned from interdisciplinary studies is the return to specialization — George Stigler Copy Share Image
I'm really troubled by the prevalence of single-sport specializations. I want my kids to do as many things for as long as… — Douglas Brunt Copy Share Image
Too rigid specialization is almost as bad for a historian's mind, and for his ultimate reputation, as too early an indulgence in… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Reengineering posits a radical new principle: that the design of work must be based not on hierarchical management and the specialization of… — Michael Martin Hammer Copy Share Image
contempt for the degradation of specialization and pedantry. Specialization develops only part of a man; a man partially developed is deformed. — Richard M. Weaver Copy Share Image
By nature, by necessity itself, [primitive man] is encyclopedic, while civilized man finds himself confined in the infinitely small regions of specialization. — Charles Baudelaire Copy Share Image
Literacy, the visual technology, dissolved the tribal magic by means of its stress on fragmentation and specialization and created the individual. — Marshall McLuhan Copy Share Image
Even the most powerful human being has a limited sphere of strength. Draw him outside of that sphere and into your own,… — Morihei Ueshiba Copy Share Image
The gains from specialization go all the way back to Adam Smith. He talked about the advantage of a bigger market being… — Paul Romer Copy Share Image
A man may have intelligence enough to excel in a particular thing and lecture on it, and yet not have sense enough… — Jean de la Bruyere Copy Share Image
More and more of out colleagues fail to understand our work because of the high specialization of research problems. We must not… — Theobald Smith Copy Share Image
“I spent most of my life trying to specialize myself. I went to theater school, film school, music school, mime school ...… — Nuno Roque Copy Share Image
“All trades, arts, and handiwork have gained by division of labor, namely, when, instead of one man doing everything, each confines himself… — Immanuel Kant Copy Share Image
People who are constantly looking for the opportunity to do something new are also people who are not going to be helped… — Gabe Newell Copy Share Image
The history of clothing practices provides guidance for fashioning a new ethic that emphasizes quality over quantity, longevity over novelty, and versatility… — Juliet B. Schor Copy Share Image
“At this point in history, our society tends to elevate and reward the specialist...This concentrated focus has brought some benefits...It may also… — Keith Stewart Copy Share Image
In 1600 the specialization of games and pastimes did not extend beyond infancy; after the age of three or four it decreased… — Philippe Aries Copy Share Image
“One problem with the division of labor in our complex economy is how it obscures the lines of connection, and therefore of… — Michael Pollan Copy Share Image
“This leaves us with the urgent question: How can we be or become a caring community, a community of people not trying… — Henri J.M. Nouwen Copy Share Image
“The progress of science has been amazingly rapid in the last decade; but consider the savants, those exhausted hens. They are certainly… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
“The Sun King had dinner each night alone. He chose from forty dishes, served on gold and silver plate. It took a… — Matt Ridley Copy Share Image
To eliminate the discrepancy between men's plans and the results achieved, a new approach is necessary. Morphological thinking suggests that this new… — Fritz Zwicky Copy Share Image
The welfare state destroys the market mechanisms - lessens free choice and willing exchange. Simultaneously creating unnatural specializations, it must, granted statism's… — Leonard Read Copy Share Image
Many faculty retreated into academic specializations and an arcane language that made them irrelevant to the task of defending the university as… — Henry Giroux Copy Share Image
“Old Sam Hamilton saw this coming. He said there couldn’t be any more universal philosophers. The weight of knowledge is too great… — John Steinbeck Copy Share Image
Specialization is for insects... The race of man? He's a whole other creature. — Robert A. Heinlein Copy Share Image
“extreme specialization prevents scholars from developing a perspective.” — Stefan Klein Copy Share Image
“Intellectually curious men become generalists. Intellectually lazy men settle for being specialists.” — Mokokoma Mokhonoana Copy Share Image