Nomad Quotes (1)
Science would be ruined if (like sports) it were to put competition above everything else, and if it were to clarify the rules of competition by withdrawing entirely into narrowly defined specialties. The rare scholars who are nomads-by-choice are essential to the intellectual welfare of the settled disciplines.
Appended to his entry in Who's Who. In Alan Lindsay Mackay, A Dictionary of Scientific Quotations (1991), 163.
See also: | Competition (8) | Essential (5) | Intellect (52) | Ruin (4) | Rule (18) | Scholar (9) | Science (463) | Specialty (2) | Sport (3)
