Opportunity Quotes (4)

Scientists tend to resist interdisciplinary inquiries into their own territory. In many instances, such parochialism is founded on the fear that intrusion from other disciplines would compete unfairly for limited financial resources and thus diminish their own opportunity for research.
[Naming territorial dominance, greed, and fear of the unknown, as some of the influences on the increasing specialization of science]
Quoted in Anthony L. Peratt, 'Dean of the Plasma Dissidents', Washington Times, supplement: The World and I (May 1988),192.
See also:  |  Diminish (3)  |  Enquiry (58)  |  Money (69)  |  Research (208)  |  Resist (3)  |  Scientist (71)

The opportunities of man are limited only by his imagination. But so few have imagination that there are ten thousand fiddlers to one composer.
See also:  |  Imagination (50)

The responsibility which rests upon man is proportional to the ability which he possesses and the opportunity which he faces. Perhaps that responsibility is no greater for him than was that of Notharctus or Eohippus or a trilobite, each in his own day, but because of man's unique abilities it is the greatest responsibility that has ever rested upon any of the earth's offspring.
Sons of the Earth: The Geologist's View of History (1930), 258.
See also:  |  Ability (11)  |  Earth (93)  |  Offspring (2)  |  Responsibility (2)

There exist limitless opportunities in every industry. Where there is an open mind, there will always be a frontier.
See also:  |  Imagination (50)

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