Specialized Quotes

113 quotes by 107 authors

Our problem right now is that we're so specialized that if the lights go out, there are a huge number of people who are not… — Margaret Atwood
Why in almost all societies have married women specialized in bearing and rearing children and in certain agricultural activities, whereas married men have done most… — Gary Becker
Fathers and mothers have lost the idea that the highest aspiration they might have for their children is for them to be wise... specialized competence… — Allan Bloom
Scientists, especially when they leave the particular field in which they are specialized, are just as ordinary, pig-headed, and unreasonable as everybody else, and their… — Hans Eysenck
Learning is more than the acquisition of the ability to think; it is the acquisition of many specialized abilities for thinking about a variety of… — Lev S. Vygotsky
Science has to be understood in its broadest sense, as a method for apprehending all observable reality, and not merely as an instrument for acquiring… — Alexis Carrel
The real accomplishment of modern science and technology consists in taking ordinary men, informing them narrowly and deeply and then, through appropriate organization, arranging to… — John Kenneth Galbraith
The open society, the unrestricted access to knowledge, the unplanned and uninhibited association of men for its furtherance-these are what may make a vast, complex,… — J. Robert Oppenheimer
All living organisms are but leaves on the same tree of life. The various functions of plants and animals and their specialized organs are manifestations… — Albert Szent-Gyorgyi
In describing today's accelerating changes, the media fire blips of unrelated information at us. Experts bury us under mountains of narrowly specialized monographs. Popular forecasters… — Alvin Toffler
The brain is a tissue. It is a complicated, intricately woven tissue, like nothing else we know of in the universe, but it is composed… — David H. Hubel
My background may be common, but I have specialized in elegance. — Cyril Ritchard
To eliminate the discrepancy between men's plans and the results achieved, a new approach is necessary. Morphological thinking suggests that this new approach cannot be… — Fritz Zwicky
These are the experiences I wish to record in this book, which should really be called The Diary of a Palaeontologist. But in committing them… — Gustav Heinrich Ralph von Koenigswald
In the twentieth century, death terrifies men less than the absence of real life. All these dead, mechanized, specialized actions, stealing a little bit of… — Raoul Vaneigem
[W]hen the empirical investigator glories in his refusal to go beyond the specialized observation dictated by the traditions of his discipline, be they ever so… — Karl Mannheim
Successful people, in all callings, never stop acquiring specialized knowledge related to their major purpose, business, or profession. — Napoleon Hill
If it were possible to transfer the methods of physical or of biological science directly to the study of man, the transfer would long ago… — Leonard Bloomfield
I don't think that art, if it's isolated and specialized, can really create culture. It needs a cult. — Ernst Fuchs
The absurdly neurotic role you and the rest of your kind have always attributed to me Erato, the Goddess Muse of Erotic Poetry bears no… — John Fowles

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