 We have inherited from our forefathers the keen longing for unified, all-embracing knowledge. The very name given to the highest institutions of learning reminds us, that from antiquity and throughout many centuries the universal aspect has been the only one to be given full credit. But the spread in both depth and width, of the multifarious branches of knowledge in the last hundred odd years has confronted us with a queer dilemma. We clearly feel that we are only now beginning to acquire reliable material for welding together the sum-total of all that is known into a whole; but on the other hand, it has become next to impossible for a single mind fully to command more than a small specialized portion of it. 
Erwin Schrodinger
What is Life?
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