"The day has gone forever gone by when any one mind, however profound and comprehensive, can take all knowledge for its province. Increase of knowledge, like advance of civilization, necessarily brings with it a division of labor, and each of the great branches of science becomes more and more minutely divided and subdivided for the purposes of investigation. Such subdivision greatly enhances the efficiency of the individual worker, enabling him to concentrate his attention upon some problem of more or less limited scope, and, so far, it is advantageous. On the other hand, like most human devices, it has its drawbacks, and what is gained in one direction is apt to be lost in another. One great and growing evil is the subdiviision of knowledge which accompanies specialization of research."
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William Berryman Scott
(February 12, 1858 – March 29, 1947) was an American paleontologist and professor of geology and paleontology at Princeton University. He was elected in 1886 a Member of the , in 1906 a Member of the U.S. , and in 1925 a Fellow of the . He received in 1910 the , in 1930 the , in 1939 the , and in 1940 the .
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