#specialization

Much literary criticism comes from people for whom extreme specialization is a cover for either grave cerebral inadequacy or terminal laziness, the latter being a much cherished aspect of academic freedom. ↗

— John Kenneth Galbraith

#aspect #being #cerebral #cherished #comes

Only by strict specialization can the scientific worker become fully conscious, for once and perhaps never again in his lifetime, that he has achieved something that will endure. A really definitive and good accomplishment is today always a specialized act. ↗

— Max Weber

#achieved #act #again #always #become

Of course, I am interested, but I would not dare to talk about them. In talking about the impact of ideas in one field on ideas in another field, one is always apt to make a fool of oneself. In these days of specialization there are too few people who have such a deep understanding of two departments of our knowledge that they do not make fools of themselves in one or the other. ↗

— Richard P. Feynman

#learning #self-awareness #specialization #thought-provoking #inspirational

God and the Devil are an effort after specialization and the division of labor. ↗

— Samuel Butler

#devil #division #effort #god #labor

The history of learning amounts to a history of specialization. ↗

— Beryl Smalley

#specialization #age

It is a wholly deplorable state of affairs when specialists in any discipline talk only to each other, and accordingly I have sought to write a book which will communicate some of the fruits of research in a manner which will make them accessible to all. ↗

— Richard Fletcher

#scholarship #specialization #communication

The ideal of an “all-round” education is out of date; it has been destroyed by the progress of knowledge. ↗

— Bertrand Russell

#learning-from-mistakes #specialization #dating

The expert knows more and more about less and less until he knows everything about nothing. ↗

— Mahatma Gandhi

#learning #specialization #knowledge

The general fact is that the most effective way of utilizing human energy is through an organized rivalry, which by specialization and social control is, at the same time, organized co-operation. ↗

— Charles Horton Cooley

#control #effective #effective way #energy #fact

This is an age of specialization, and in such an age the repertory theater is an anachronism, a ludicrous anachronism. ↗

— Minnie Maddern Fiske

#ludicrous #repertory #specialization #such #theater