 | United States. Congress. House. Committee on Appropriations - 1947 - 1834 pages
...want to give him credit for it now, that an efficiency expert "so far as I have been able to observe, is a person who knows more and more about less and less." Your job in the particular place you now occupy is a difficult one. Only by the free flow of accurate... | |
 | Nathan Rosenberg, Ralph Landau - Political Science - 1986 - 656 pages
...experts equip them to deal with movement along some very particular trajectories, but not p- CD CD others. The old aphorism that an expert is a person who knows more and more about 8 "^ m less an<i 1esS conveys an important truth, one that has serious implications for the understanding... | |
 | Louis Jacobs - Juvenile Nonfiction - 1987 - 166 pages
...indepth on its own can similarly be very one-sided. An expert, it has been suggested by educators, is a person who knows more and more about less and less. Care must be taken that the expert is not left knowing more and more about less and less until he ends... | |
 | Walter Prytulak - Philosophy - 2001 - 224 pages
...about more and more, until he knows nothing about everything. The scientist, in contradistinction, is a person who knows more and more about less and less, until he knows everything about nothing. A person with a hyperactive mind, who asks many questions... | |
 | Philip Roberts - Technology & Engineering - 2003 - 422 pages
...would all do well to remember the cynical definition of what a specialist actually is: A specialist is a person who knows more and more about less and less until eventually he knows everything about nothing. To some extent, this an unfair criticism, but,... | |
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According to the popular definition, a philosopher is a person who knows less and less about more and more, until he knows nothing about everything. The scientist, in contradistinction, is a person who knows more and more about less and less, until he... 