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Specialization Quotes

Specialization is for insects.

Specialization is for insects.

Robert A. Heinlein
Insects, Specialization
Time Enough for Love "Intermission" (1973)

The history of learning amounts to a history of specialization.

Beryl Smalley
Specialization, Amount
Beryl Smalley (1975). “Historians in the Middle Ages”

Specialization is the great evil of civilization.

Wendell Berry
Civilization, Evil, Specialization
"Towards Home: Michael Pollan and Fritz Heag on Reviving the Domestic". Interview with Paul Schmelzer, www.huffingtonpost.com. October 16, 2013.

The shoemaker makes a good shoe because he makes nothing else.

Ralph Waldo Emerson
Shoes, Specialization, Good Shoes
Ralph Waldo Emerson (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson (Illustrated)”, p.2666, Delphi Classics

Overemphasis of the competitive system and premature specialization on the ground of immediate usefulness kill the spirit on which all cultural life depends, specialized knowledge included.

Albert Einstein
Spirit, Specialization, Depends
Albert Einstein (2010). “Ideas And Opinions”, p.67, Broadway Books

The whole of our civilization is founded on specialization, which implies the enslavement of those who execute to those who coordinate.

Simone Weil
Civilization, Bureaucracy, Specialization

You specialize in something until one day it is specializing in you.

Arthur Miller
One Day, Specialization

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