Scientists Should Concentrate on One Specific Research Area at a Time
“Even those with mediocre talent can produce notable work in the various sciences, so long as they do not try to embrace all of them at once. instead, they should concentrate attention on one subject after another (that is, in different periods of time), although later work will undermine earlier attainments in the other spheres. This amounts to saying that the brain adapts to universal science in time but not in space. In fact, even those with great abilities proceed in this way. Thus, when we are astonished by someone with publications in different scientific fields, realize that each topic was explored during a specific period of time.” (p. 26)