Educated person Quote by Ivan Kireyevsky

The future of research is interdisciplina ry, and will quickly take us into areas that today we cannot even foresee. This building gives us…

— Michael Tanner

The notion that every well educated person would have a mastery of at least the basic elements of the humanities, sciences, and social sciences…

— Joseph Stiglitz

“Now, scholars can be very useful and necessary, in their own dull and up amusing way. They provide a lot of information. It's just…

— Benjamin Hoff

The sciences which take socio-historical reality as their subject matter are seeking, more intensively than ever before, their systematic relations to one another and…

— Wilhelm Dilthey

There is this tremendous body of knowledge in the world of academia where extraordinary numbers of incredibly thoughtful people have taken the time to…

— Malcolm Gladwell

All scholarship, like all science, is an ongoing, open-ended discussion in which all conclusions are tentative forever, the principal value and charm of the…

— Hugh Nibley

“In order for a field or discipline to progress and mature, it needs to reach a point where it can thoughtfully reflect on its…

— Gene Kim

“Modern scientific culture has evolved from its roots in the ancient world and has become a complex web of many highly specialized disciplines. Gone…

— Christopher Knight & Alan Butler

The research side of academic life is often viewed from the outside as a solo and, at times, lonely activity. In fact, it is…

— Michael Spence

Interest in the pseudo-sciences has become extraordinary.

— Gerhard Herzberg

Many of us who read the literature of social science as laymen are conscious of being admitted at a door which bears the watchword…

— Richard M. Weaver

“Every serious scientific worker is painfully conscious of this involuntary relegation to an ever-narrowing sphere of knowledge, which is threatening to deprive the investigator…

— Albert Einstein The World As I See It