None of the great discoveries was made by a ‘specialist’ or a ‘researcher.’
~ Martin H. Fischer
Every man gets a narrower and narrower field of knowledge in which he must be an expert in order to compete with other people. The specialist knows more and more about less and less and finally knows everything about nothing.
~Konrad Lorenz
A specialist is someone who does everything else worse.
~Ruggiero Ricci
Do not be bullied out of your common sense by the specialist; two to one, he is a pedant.
~ Oliver Wendell Holmes
What a delightful thing is the conversation of specialist! One understands absolutely nothing and it’s charming.
~Edward Degas
Specialists are people who always repeat the same mistakes.
~Walter Gropius
Generalists should be the upbeat, positive people in the profession while specialists should be their grouchy, negative counterparts.
~Karl Weick
The trouble with specialists is that they tend to think in grooves.
~Elaine Morgan
