Interdisciplinary research often consists of individuals disciplinarians standing in a circle, holding hands for mutual comfort, while the problem of interest slips through the middle.
S. Beer (1980) Introduction to autopoiesis. In Autopoiesis and Cognition: The Realization of the Living (ed. H.R.Maturana and F.J.Varela), pp.63-72, Reidel, Boston