It seems plain and self-evident, yet it needs do be said: the isolated knowledge obtained by a group of specialists in a narrow field has in itself no value whatsoever, but only in its synthesis with all the rest of knowledge and only inasmuch as it...

It seems plain and self-evident, yet it needs do be said: the isolated knowledge obtained by a group of specialists in a narrow field has in itself no value whatsoever, but only in its synthesis with all the rest of knowledge and only inasmuch as it really contributes in the synthesis toward answering the demand, “Who are we?”. Erwin Schrödinger