"The larger the island of knowledge, the longer the shoreline of wonder."
"In all living there is a certain narrowness of application which leads to breadth and power. We have to concent on a thing in order to master it. Then we must be broad enough not to be narrowed by our specialties."
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Source: Ralph Washington Sockman (1933). “The Unemployed Carpenter”
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