specialized quotes

The real accomplishment of modern science and technology consists in taking ordinary men, informing them narrowlyand deeply and then, through appropriate organization, arranging to have their knowledge combined with that of other specialized but equally ordinary men. This dispenses with the need for genius.Theresulting performance, though lessinspiring, is far more predictable.

-John Kenneth Galbraith
  The New Industrial State.

The detective novel is†the classic example of a specialized form of art removed from contact with the life it pretends to build on.

- Sir V(ictor) S(awdon) Pritchett
  In the New Statesman,16 Jun.