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Quote by Konrad Lorenz
Every man gets a narrower and narrower field of knowledge in which

Every man gets a narrower and narrower field of knowledge in which he must be an expert in order to compete with other people. The specialist knows more and more about less and less and finally knows everything about nothing. – Konrad Lorenz

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Historians will have to face the fact that natural selection determined the evolution of cultures in the same manner as it did that of species. – Konrad Lorenz

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It is a good morning exercise for a research scientist to discard a pet hypothesis every day before breakfast. It keeps him young. – Konrad Lorenz

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You dont know how much you know until you know how much you dont know. – Anon.

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