breadth of knowledge Quotes

Employers have decided that having the breadth of knowledge that's associated with a four-year degree is often something they want to see in the people they give that job to.

Great men are more distinguished by range and extent than by originality.

The mathematicians know a great deal about very little and the physicists very little about a great deal.

If genius has any common denominator, I would propose breadth of interest and the ability to construct fruitful analogies between fields.

The body must be credited with an immense fund of know-how.

The length of your education is less important than its breadth, and the length of your life is less important than its depth.

I know a little bit about a great many things and not enough about any one to make a living in these times.

Since we cannot be universal and know all that is to be known of everything, we ought to know a little about everything. For it is far better to know something about everything than to know all about one thing. This universality is the best. If we can have both, still better; but if we must choose, we ought to choose the former.

Poincaré [was] the last man to take practically all mathematics, pure and applied, as his province. ... Few mathematicians have had the breadth of philosophic vision that Poincaré had, and none in his superior in the gift of clear exposition.