The small but excellent approach has indeed helped Caltech achieve many important break- throughs in scientific research, but some professors believe the school's fields of research are too narrow, as though it's staked everything on a few throws of the dice.
天才無法遺傳？「小而精」固然有助於加州理工在科學研究上取得許多重大突破，但也有教授認為，學校的研究領域太窄，就像把所有的賭注下在幾個目標上，風險太高。