Interdisciplinary Quotes

“We want to create a new renaissance where art, science, and engineering are all part of the same thing.”

“All sciences are connected; they lend each other material aid as parts of one great whole.”

“No sociologist can think intelligently of his science for a single hour without deriving a large part of his conceptions from the work of men who did not call themselves sociologists.”

“The different branches of science are so intimately connected that the study of one can not be pursued to any great extent without an acquaintance with the others.”

“Geology, without the assistance of chemistry and mineralogy, is no better than a chasing of rainbows.”

“I'm interested in the translation of information from one field to another.”

“I have tried to be a bridge between the two cultures, the arts and the sciences.”

“We are not students of some subject matter, but students of problems. And problems may cut right across the borders of any subject matter or discipline.”

“The boundaries between disciplines are becoming increasingly porous. The great advances will be made at the intersections of fields.”

“The best way to know a thing is in the context of another discipline.”

“Nothing is more fruitful than the cross-fertilization of mathematical theories.”

“To be a painter, you must be a poet and a musician.”

“I happened to be a sort of odd man out. I was not a biologist. I was a physicist, and I had never had any biological training at all.”