Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Quotes
In all our academies we attempt far too much. ... In earlier times lectures were delivered upon chemistry and botany as branches of medicine, and the medical student learned enough of them. Now, however, chemistry and botany are become sciences of themselves, incapable of comprehension by a hasty survey, and each demanding the study of a whole life, yet we expect the medical student to understand them. He who is prudent, accordingly declines all distracting claims upon his time, and limits himself to a single branch and becomes expert in one thing.
von Goethe, Johann Wolfgang, and Johann Peter Eckermann. Conversations of Goethe with Eckermann and Soret. Translated by John Oxenford, Smith, Elder & Co., 1850, p. 219.
She was one of the first female physicians in England. However, she could not study there or sit for her examinations. She trained in the Scotland, Ireland and Swizerland where she earned her medical degree.
The problem effects politics in that politicians and their staffs who have to understand critical concepts cannot even read up on the subject very deeply unless they have experience with the technical vocabulary of the specific field. The result is that are dependent on experts and are unable to reach conclusions for themselves.
1st Baron Macaulay. In reality neither politics nor political science is yet a true science. And it has not developed to the same degree that the physical sciences which utilize mathematics have done.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe was a German poet, playwright, novelist, scientist, statesman, theatre director, critic, and amateur artist. His works include: four novels; epic and lyric poetry; prose and verse dramas; memoirs; an autobiography; literary and aesthetic criticism; and treatises on botany, anatomy, and colour. He is considered to be the greatest German literary figure of the modern era.
