“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
Specialization and organization are the basis of human progress. — Charlotte Perkins Gilman 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
If I could relive my life, what I would do is work with scientists. But not one scientist, because they're locked into… — Agnes Denes Copy Share Image
Truth and Truthfulness is an ambitious work, and its journeys into history give it a breadth unusual in these days of increased… — Julian Baggini Copy Share Image
The range of human knowledge today is so great that we're all specialists and the distance between specializations has become so great… — Robert M. Pirsig Copy Share Image
“The ideal of an “all-round” education is out of date; it has been destroyed by the progress of knowledge.” — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
I love to exercise my creativity in many ways but as each year of specialization goes by I feel further and further… — Ani DiFranco Copy Share Image
Of course, our failures are a consequence of many factors, but possibly one of the most important is the fact that society… — R. Buckminster Fuller Copy Share Image
Overemphasis of the competitive system and premature specialization on the ground of immediate usefulness kill the spirit on which all cultural life… — Albert Einstein Copy Share Image
All the accoutrements that distinguish us from animal existence were put in place when we had a different kind of mind than… — Terence McKenna Copy Share Image
The very fact of seeking specialization is probably what makes America so great in these two hundred years. But also, the sensation… — Sergio Leone Copy Share Image
The facts of paleontology seem to support creation and the flood rather than evolution. For instance, all the major groups of invertebrates… — Enoch Copy Share Image
The shoemaker makes a good shoe because he makes nothing else. — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
“Nobody knows. What good's an opinion if you don't know? My grandfather knew the number of whiskers in the Almighty's beard. I… — John Steinbeck Copy Share Image
There must be bands of enthusiasts for everything on earth-fanatics who shared a vocabulary, a batch of technical skills and equipment, and,… — Annie Dillard 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 main insight learned from interdisciplinary studies is the return to specialization — George Stigler Copy Share Image
In this age of specialization, I sometimes think of myself as the last 'generalist' in economics, with interests that range from mathematical… — Paul Samuelson Copy Share Image
“The path of specialization leads away from the ordinary and concrete acts of understanding in terms of which man actually lives his… — William Barrett Copy Share Image
“Intellectually curious men become generalists. Intellectually lazy men settle for being specialists.” — Mokokoma Mokhonoana Copy Share Image
The daily grinding of evolution, as accelerated by technology, churns out more and more complex organisms, with higher rates of energy use,… — Kevin Kelly Copy Share Image
It is an ancient belief, going back to classical antiquity, that specialization of any kind is illiberal in a freeman. A man… — Richard M. Weaver 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
