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"Whitehead pointed out that the men going into those graduate schools and then going into a very specialized area instead of having a broad focus were getting down to a very narrow focus and within that very narrow focus would become specialists themselves so they would be professors of specialization within specialization. The specialists would then become so linear, instead of comprehensive-- instead of being broadcast, they would be narrowly beamed-- and being very bright ones they would make great speed in their linear acceleration. It would mean that they would speed outwardly through the Universe and would become very bright stars in the firmament, but as stars, very remote from one another.
"He pointed out then that because the specialists had been very carefully picked as individuals of high intellectual capability and, of course, intellectual integrity would be implicit. Their own integrity would make clear to them how little anyone outside their specialization could possibly know about their area of inquiry. They wouldn’t feel any pride about it-- it would just be a fact that no one else in the public would tend to know anything about what they were talking about. Because they would
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- Oregon Lecture #2, pp.39-40, 2 Jul’62
