"And this far-reaching book could not have been written without my decades of interdisciplinary studies distilled in my many other books. Rather than resorting to an ancient comparison of foxes and hedgehogs (a fox knows many things, but a hedgehog knows one big thing), **I tend to think about modern scientists as either the drillers of ever-deeper holes (now the dominant route to fame) or scanners of wide horizons (now a much-diminished group)**." ([Location 383](https://readwise.io/to_kindle?action=open&asin=B08SGC3TD3&location=383)) --- **Tags** -- [[quotes]], [[specialisation]], **Source** -- [[202412030828 - B - How the World Really Works]] **See Also** -- [[202308101402 — B — Range]]