Breadth quotes

Paul_Davies

Hidden Links

"Finding hidden links between seemingly disparate phenomena is what makes the scientific method so powerful and compelling. The distinctive feature of science is that it is both broad and deep: broad in the way it tackles all physical phenomena and deep in the way it weaves them, economically, into a common explanatory scheme requiring fewer and fewer assumptions. No other system of thought can match its breadth and depth."

• Source: Paul Davies, Cosmic Jackpot: Why Our Universe is Just Right for Life (2007)

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  • Paul_Davies_quotes
  • Paul_Davies_quotes/Hidden_Links

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Keywords: Hiding_quotes Link_quotes Relationship_quotes Phenomena_quotes Scientific_Method_quotes Power_quotes Feature_quotes Science_quotes Breadth_quotes Depth_quotes Explanation_quotes Scheme_quotes Requirements_quotes Assumption_quotes System_quotes Thinking_quotes Find_quotes Disparate_quotes Method_quotes Compelling_quotes Distinct_quotes Tackle_quotes Physical_quotes Deep_quotes Weave_quotes Economic_quotes

David_Deutsch

Mathematical Knowledge

“Mathematical knowledge may, just like our scientific knowledge, be deep and broad, it may be subtle and wonderfully explanatory, it may be uncontroversially accepted; but it cannot be certain.”

• Source: David Deutsch in the book “The Fabric of Reality”. ISBN 978-0713990614. Published in 1997 by Viking Press. Chapter 10.

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  • David_Deutsch_quotes
  • David_Deutsch_quotes/Mathematical_Knowledge

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Keywords: Mathematics_quotes Knowledge_quotes Science_quotes Depth_quotes Breadth_quotes Explanation_quotes Acceptability_quotes Certainty_quotes

David_Epstein

Breadth

“The challenge we all face is how to maintain the benefits of breadth, diverse experience, interdisciplinary thinking, and delayed concentration in a world that increasingly incentivizes, even demands, hyperspecialization.”

• Source: David Epstein in the book “Range: Why Generalists Triumph in a Specialized World”. Published 2019 by Riverhead Books. Introduction, page 13. ISBN 978-0735214484.

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  • David_Epstein_quotes
  • David_Epstein_quotes/Breadth

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Keywords: Challenge_quotes Face_quotes Maintain_quotes Benefit_quotes Breadth_quotes Diversity_quotes Experience_quotes Interdisciplinary_quotes Thinking_quotes Delay_quotes Concentration_quotes World_quotes Increase_quotes Incentive_quotes Demand_quotes Hyperspecialization_quotes Specialization_quotes