The main insight learned from interdisciplinary studies is the return to specialization — George Stigler 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
You specialize in something until one day it is specializing in you. — Arthur Miller Copy Share Image
“Intellectually curious men become generalists. Intellectually lazy men settle for being specialists.” — Mokokoma Mokhonoana Copy Share Image
God and the Devil are an effort after specialisation and division of labour. — Samuel Butler 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
The problem [of specialization] is essentially that of communications to an army in action. After a rapid advance communications become disorganized, and… — John Desmond Bernal Copy Share Image
“Rex has never been unkind to me intentionally. It's just that he isn't a real person at all; he's just a few… — Evelyn Waugh Copy Share Image
“The more you concentrate on what you discover that you will be good for you to pursue, the more experienced you will… — Israelmore Ayivor 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
Rising living standards - whether in a village, a region, a nation, or the world - depend first on specialization: on letting… — Virginia Postrel Copy Share Image
The most effective way of utilizing human energy is through an organized rivalry, which by specialization and social control is, at the… — Charles Horton Cooley Copy Share Image
Specialization makes the welfare of the society vulnerable to the market and to political forces beyond national control. — Robert Gilpin Copy Share Image
Adam Smith pointed out that there were three things that make us more prosperous, in a general sort of way: freedom to… — P. J. O'Rourke Copy Share Image
With the variety of fields within economics, broadly conceived and the increasing specialization of scholarly world, the award of a Nobel Memorial… — Simon Kuznets Copy Share Image
“Imagine if one should drag an innocent passer-by from the street to the operating room of a nearby hospital and force him… — Erik von Kuehnelt-Leddihn 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 fact that modern physics, the manifestation of an extreme specialization of the rational mind, is now making contact with mysticism, the… — Fritjof Capra Copy Share Image
We are in an age that assumes the narrowing trends of specialization to be logical, natural, and desirable. Consequently, society expects all… — R. Buckminster Fuller Copy Share Image
The average student emerges at the end of the Ph.D. program, already middle-aged, overspecialized, poorly prepared for the world outside, and almost… — Freeman Dyson Copy Share Image
All research in the cultural sciences in an age of specialization, once it is oriented towards a given subject matter through particular… — Max Weber Copy Share Image
“It is a wholly deplorable state of affairs when specialists in any discipline talk only to each other, and accordingly I have… — Richard Fletcher 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
“Because by definition they lack any such sense of mutuality or wholeness, our specializations subsist on conflict with one another. The rule… — Wendell Berry Copy Share Image
Images detached from every aspect of life merge into a common stream, and the former unity of life is lost forever. Apprehended… — Guy Debord 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
“The outstanding characteristic of Western scholarship is its specialization and cutting up of knowledge into different departments. The over-development of logical thinking… — Lin Yutang 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
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
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
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