Books Quote by Catharine R Stimpson

A human being should be able to change a diaper, plan an invasion, butcher a hog, conn a ship, design a building, write a…

— Robert A. Heinlein

Specialization and organization are the basis of human progress.

— Charlotte Perkins Gilman

Specialization is in fact only a fancy form of slavery wherein the 'expert' is fooled into accepting a slavery by making him feel that…

— Anonymous

The process of specialization tends, almost inevitably, to narrow the sources from which the rules of any science are drawn; and English law is…

— Edward Jenks

“extreme specialization prevents scholars from developing a perspective.”

— Stefan Klein

The main insight learned from interdisciplinary studies is the return to specialization

— George Stigler

You specialize in something until one day you find it is specializing in you.

— Arthur Miller

You specialize in something until one day it is specializing in you.

— Arthur Miller

The whole of our civilization is founded on specialization, which implies the enslavement of those who execute to those who coordinate.

— Simone Weil

Generalization is necessary to the advancement of knowledge; but particularity is indispensable to the creations of the imagination.

— Thomas B. Macaulay

The gains from specialization go all the way back to Adam Smith. He talked about the advantage of a bigger market being that we…

— Paul Romer

Overemphasis of the competitive system and premature specialization on the ground of immediate usefulness kill the spirit on which all cultural life depends, specialized…

— Albert Einstein