“Time was when medicine could do very little for critically ill or dying patients. Now it can do too much. Where to draw the line is the subject of a broad, heated debate throughout the country, a debate that becomes louder with each new medical miracle or impossible case.” LittlesCountryCareCan DoLinesCasesToo MuchImpossibleSubjectsDyingDrawsMiracleMedicinePatientIllIllnessMedicalDebateHealth CareBroads Author:Lisa Belkin
“The general public doesn't know and probably doesn't care about punctuated equilibria nor indeed should they, or the greenhouse effect on some other planet - they barely have the ability to cope with the greenhouse effect on their own planet. So I think you have to distinguish between the broad visibility of a scientist when he or she is speaking to a general public and trying to address general issues and the continued position that a scientist may have into the history of a particular subject.” ThinkingKnowsShouldTryingMayCareAbilityIssuesSubjectsEffectsPositionParticularPlanetsScientistAddressesBroadsEquilibriumGreenhousesGeneral PublicVisibility Author:Richard Lewontin
“The "family" has clearly emerged anew in the late 1970s as a central subject for discussion, debate, research and writing in bothscholarly and popular arenas. Anxiety over whether or not the family as a basic social institution is dying has diminished. In its stead has emerged a fairly broad consensus around the position that the family is "here to stay," but that it certainly is changing.” WritingSocialChangeSubjectsDyingPositionAnxietyLateResearchInstitutionsDebateDiscussionBroadsArenaConsensusSocial InstitutionsResearch And Writing Book:Parenting in an unresponsive society: managing work and family life Source: Parenting in an unresponsive society: managing work and family life
“I think there are certain subjects I don't want to tackle, that I don't think I could do a good job with. I don't think I'd be good with... broad comedy? I don't know. Maybe I would.” ThinkingKnowsWantJobsCertainComedySubjectsBe GoodBroadsGood Job Author:John Carpenter
“The total subject of mathematics is clearly too broad for any of us. I do not think that any mathematician since Gauss has covered it uniformly and fully; even Hilbert did not and all of us are of considerably lesser width quite apart from the question of depth than Hilbert.” ThinkingSubjectsMathematicsDepthBroadsCoveredMathematicianWidth Author:John von Neumann