Economist Quote by George Stigler

“extreme specialization prevents scholars from developing a perspective.”

— Stefan Klein

I was in an interdisciplinary major - which was a new thing then - which was psychology, sociology, anthropology, and biology, which is really…

— Stephen A. Schwarzman

Exposure to a diversity of disciplines has been exceptionally helpful to me.

— Irene Rosenfeld

There are people from lots of different fields in my department. In my lab, they come from computer science, education, psychophysics, psychology, music -…

— Daniel Levitin

Careers in virtually all academic disciplines are fostered by being a superstar who knows more about one subject than anyone else in the world.

— Philip Zimbardo

Specialization and organization are the basis of human progress.

— Charlotte Perkins Gilman

“another obstacle to educating innovators in universities is the lack of respect for interdisciplinary inquiry, practical knowledge, and applied learning. Discipline-based, in-depth knowledge is…

— Tony Wagner

School systems should base their curriculum not on the idea of separate subjects, but on the much more fertile idea of disciplines... which makes…

— Ken Robinson

Specialization is a feature of every complex organization, be it social or natural, a school system, garden, book, or mammalian body.

— Catharine R Stimpson

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

— Arthur Miller

Medical Device technology is truly interdisciplinary.

— Chris Toumazou

Very narrow areas of expertise can be very productive. Develop your own profile. Develop your own niche.

— Leigh Steinberg