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IT has long been an argument against the admission of the scientific worker to administrative responsibility that the specialist is too immersed in his own particular subject to be capable of taking the wide and detached views involved in administrative decisions, and that he does not possess either the wider vision or sense of values required. Even in scientific work excessive specialization is to-day an admitted evil, and the team work necessary in the attack on many modern problems, whether in pure or in applied science, is already tending to break down such isolation and stimulate contacts between workers in different fields, to their mutual advantage.
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Specialism, Departmentalism and Public Service. Nature 144, 1059–1061 (1939). https://doi.org/10.1038/1441059a0
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.1038/1441059a0