The team must consist of three sorts of specialists, he says. Otherwise the revolution, whether in politics or the arts or the sciences or whatever, is sure to fail.The rarest of these specialists, he says,...

A specialist’s mind is a slave to his specialization.

Intellectually curious men become generalists. Intellectually lazy men settle for being specialists.

The range of human knowledge today is so great that we’re all specialists and the distance between specializations has become so great that anyone who seeks to wander freely between them almost has to forego...