Quotes About Interdisciplinary

One of our brainchildren is a still viable Science and Society course.

We have artists with no scientific knowledge and scientists with no artistic knowledge and both with no spiritual sense of gravity at all, and the result is not just bad, it is ghastly.

You can't be a good economist unless you're also a good psychologist. Or a good engineer without being the right kind of metaphysician.

Education, as conceived today, is something separated both from biological and social life.

I don't think of fashion as fashion or biology as biology.

I think it is important to have a balance of science and arts to be able to be accessible in either fields.

Robotics is very interdisciplinary, and so, except at a very few colleges, there is not a major that is exactly fitted to robotics.

Why stick to just prose or just music or just newspaper or just video? Why not create new models for information that combine elements of them all?

Forensic science offers great potential, as it draws on almost every discipline and, in doing so, creates widespread opportunity for innovation.

If one is interested in the relations between fields which, according to customary academic divisions, belong to different departments, then he will not be welcomed as a builder of bridges, as he might have expected, but will rather be regarded by both sides as an outsider and troublesome intruder.

narrowly focused specialists may be good at incremental innovation. But breakthrough innovation is often the product of temporary teams whose members cross disciplinary boundaries—at a time when breakthroughs in every field are, in fact, blurring those very boundaries. And this is not just a matter for scientists and researchers.

A biophysicist talks physics to the biologists and biology to the physicists, but then he meets another biophysicist, they just discuss women.

The sciences alone cannot illuminate the entirety of human experience without the light that comes from the arts and humanities.

Att our MIT lab, there are people from diverse backgrounds like architecture, psychology, and philosophy, giving a holistic touch to the creation of any technology we may have in mind.

Philosophy is at its most engaged when it is impure. What is being recovered from the Ancient Greek model is not some lost idea of philosophy's pure essence, but the idea that philosophy is mixed up with everything else.

I don't see any boundaries between any of the art forms. I think they all inter-relate completely.

The systems approach to biology will be the dominant theme in medicine.

I have quite a bit of sympathy for the idea that psychology and cognitive science have much to offer philosophy, and that the reverse is true as well.

Like the sunlight and the firelight that guided our birth, we need a unified humanities and science to construct a full and honest picture of what we truly are and what we can become.

Perhaps the time has come for ethics to be removed temporarily from the hands of the philosophers and biologicized - made part of the new synthesis.

Would the humanities care to colonize the sciences?

Just as the science and art of agriculture depend upon chemistry and botany, so the art of education depends upon physiology and psychology.

The study of gender and language might seem at first to be a narrowly focused field, but it is actually as interdisciplinary as they come.

People, and especially theologians, should try to familiarize themselves with scientific ideas. Of course, science is technical in many respects, but there are some very good books that try to set out some of the conceptual structure of science.