Barbarians Quote by Stanislaw Lem Download Open image “A specialist is a barbarian whose ignorance is not well-rounded.” — Stanislaw Lem ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 4.3 out of 5 (4 ratings) Copy quoteShare Barbarians Ignorance Specialists Well rounded Wells
“It has been said that a specialist is a barbarian whose ignorance is not well-rounded” — Stanisław Lem Copy Share Image
A specialist is a man who knows more and more about less and less. — William J. Mayo Copy Share Image
The specialist is one who never makes small mistakes while moving toward the grand fallacy. — Marshall McLuhan Copy Share Image
He [the "specialist"] is one who, out of all that has to be known in order to be a man of judgment, is only… — Jose Ortega y Gasset Copy Share Image
Every man gets a narrower and narrower field of knowledge in which he must be an expert in order to compete with other people.… — Konrad Lorenz Copy Share Image
And it's the educated barbarian who is the worst: he knows what to destroy. — Helen Clark MacInnes Copy Share Image
“At this point in history, our society tends to elevate and reward the specialist...This concentrated focus has brought some benefits...It may also be a… — Keith Stewart Copy Share Image
Do not be bullied out of your common sense by the specialist; two to one, he is a pedant. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
An expert is someone who knows more and more about less and less, until eventually he knows everything about nothing. — Andrew McMahon Copy Share Image
That human existence should repeat itself, well and good, but that it should repeat itself like a hackneyed tune, or a record a drunkard… — Stanislaw Lem Copy Share Image
“. . . according to Lem's Law, 'No one reads; if someone does read, he doesn't understand; if he understands, he immediately forgets' --… — Stanislaw Lem Copy Share Image
Futurologists have been multiplying like flies since the day Herman Kahn made Cassandra's profession "scientific," yet somehow not one of them has come out… — Stanislaw Lem Copy Share Image
When the Universe was not so out of whack as it is today, and all the stars were lined up in their proper places,… — Stanislaw Lem Copy Share Image
Psychoanalytic doctrine reveals the pig in man, a pig saddled with a conscience; the disastrous result is that the pig is uncomfortable beneath that… — Stanislaw Lem Copy Share Image
In Riemann, Hilbert or in Banach space Let superscripts and subscripts go their ways. Our symptotes no longer out of phase, We shall encounter,… — Stanislaw Lem Copy Share Image
This is another lie. We are only seeking Man. We have no need of other worlds. A single world, our own, suffices us; but… — Stanislaw Lem Copy Share Image
“Man does not create gods, in spite of appearances. The times, the age, impose them on him. (tr. by Joanna Kilmartin and Steve Cox)” — Stanislaw Lem Copy Share Image
Of the two powers, the two categories that take possession of us when we enter the world (from where?), space is by far the… — Stanislaw Lem Copy Share Image
“What was civilization ever, really, but the attempt by man to talk himself into being good? Only good mind you. The rest had to… — Stanislaw Lem Copy Share Image
School curricula that ignore the arts produce highly educated Barbarians — Edward Albee Copy Share Image
One simply cannot engage in barbarous action without becoming a barbarian, because one cannot defend human values by calculated and unprovoked violence without doing… — J. William Fulbright Copy Share Image
Fain would we remain barbarians, if our claim to civilization were to be based on the gruesome glory of war. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
The idea that war should be conducted within a moral framework may seem like a quaint medieval practice, but as speech separates humans from… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Is Islam a religion of peace? I'm sure for some of the practitioners, but it's been hijacked by people who have an ideology that… — Jeb Bush Copy Share Image
If you go back to the Conan the Barbarian series, I really liked that. — Andre Braugher Copy Share Image
America's critics can be heard everywhere. It is too much in love with money - worshipping the god of the marketplace, the golden calf.… — Maurice Saatchi Copy Share Image
I believe that every single human being is entitled to the protection of our laws, whether they can vote or not. Whether they can… — Marco Rubio Copy Share Image
The waiter brought fresh-baked bread and cheese, a bottle of sparkling water for Annabeth, and a Coke with ice for me (because I’m a… — Rick Riordan Copy Share Image
Why is she afraid?" he asked. "She's not Anjin-san. Just a little nervous. Please excuse her. She's never seen a foreigner close to before."… — James Clavell Copy Share Image
If all the barbarian conquerors had been annihilated in the same hour, their total destruction would not have restored the empire of the West:… — Edward Gibbon Copy Share Image
The Islamic conquest of India is probably the bloodiest story in history. It is a discouraging tale, for its evident moral is that civilization… — Will Durant Copy Share Image
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