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"Specialisation" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... the army of investigators, and the choice of ever minuter fields—not to say lanes and alleys—of research, one is led to doubt whether research is not one of the disintegrating forces of society, and whether ever increasing specialisation must not mean a perpetual narrowing of human sympathies in the intellectual leaders of mankind. Both types of university appear to me to present the phenomena of a country suffering from the effects of overproduction, where the energies of workers ...
— The History Of University Education In Maryland • Bernard Christian Steiner
... crystallography and molecular physics; the other was caricature. Both aptitudes sprang no doubt from the same exceptional sensitiveness to form. As a schoolboy he exercised both very happily, but now he was getting to the age of specialisation, and he was fluctuating very much between science and art. After a spell of scientific study he would come upon a fatigue period and find nothing in life but absurdities and a lark that one could represent very amusingly; after a bout of funny drawings his mind went back ...
— Mr. Britling Sees It Through • H. G. Wells |
Words linked to "Specialisation" : biology, career, adaptation, specialism, specialise, calling, vocation, specialization, specialty, differentiation, adaption, adjustment, speciality, biological science, change of state |
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