Credo

Our approach and general Philosophy was nicely expressed by Erwin Schrödinger, the famous Physicist and one of the fathers of Quantum Physics, in the introduction of a lecture he held in Dublin in 1943:

" 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 throughout many centuries the universal aspect has been the only one to be given full credit. But the spread, both in width and depth, of the multifarious branches of knowledge during the last hundred odd years has confronted us with a queer dilemma. We feel clearly that we are only now beginning to acquire reliable material for welding together the sum-total of what is known into a whole; but, on the other hand, it has come next to impossible for a single mind fully to command more than a small specialized portion of it. I can see no other escape from this dilemma (lest our true aim to be lost forever) than that some of us should venture to embark on a synthesis of facts and theories, albeit with second-hand and incomplete knowledge of some of them, and at the risk of making fools of themselves. So much for my apology."

Perfection is an ideal that cannot be reached but that can be strived for. Within any organisation this requires both: specilized knowledge and an overall perspective...