Specialisation Quotes

“... Those that know of... Paths of space... Have little time to waste on such things as magic... And those who know whence poetry is, and the need that man has for song, or know any one of the fifty branches of magic, have little time to waste on such things as science...”
― Lord Dunsany, The King of Elfland's Daughter

“Sentensi bora katika medani ya uandishi ni sentensi fupi, angavu, sahihi, yenye mantiki, na kamilifu.”
― Enock Maregesi

“Sentensi ni mkusanyiko wa maneno unaoanza na herufi kubwa na kuisha na alama ya kushangaa, kuuliza, au nukta. Sentensi bora ni fupi, angavu, sahihi, yenye mantiki, na kamilifu.”
― Enock Maregesi

“specjalista to barbarzyńca, którego ignorancja nie jest wszechstronna”
― Stanisław Lem, His Master's Voice

“Science is a broad church full of narrow minds, trained to know ever more about ever less.”
― Steve Jones, The Single Helix

“I think it is fatal to specialize. And all kinds of things show us that, and that the more diverse we are in what we can do, the better.”
― Jane Jacobs, Jane Jacobs: The Last Interview and Other Conversations

“Drunk Man views life as inseparable from a tension which expresses itself in conflicts and periodic crises, and the nature of which was already clearly enough perceived by Adam Smith and Dugald Stewart when they pointed out that the very same thing, this specialisation which is responsible for the material enrichment of the community also tens to create a spiritual and intellectual impoverishment.”
― George Elder Davie, Cencrastus No. 25: Spring 1987