Oh my, this is such a huge problem these days, when we think we can "slice and dice" the episteme six ways to Sunday at will. Descartes largely gets the blame for this. But I don't think there was any way he could have seen this sort of thing "coming"; and I think he would have been appalled, mortified, if he had seen it.
These days disciplines spawn subdisciplines, which in turn spawn their own subdisciplines, seemingly ad infinitum. What is presently, acutely needed in our own time is not more and more specialist knowledge, but the integration of extant human knowledge from all sources to date. IMHO FWIW.
Then we could confidently (more or less) move on to the next level of human knowledge and discovery....
...Today the emphasis in the world of research and also in the university is to go to extremes in the pursuit of details…
… Often it happens that each person is pushing one little channel and doesn't know anything but that. The great themes have very little resonance. But the problem is that today scientists no longer have time to think. Physicists have "thought" up to the generation of Hesemberg and Shroedinger. After that, there has been no time for this. The quantity of knowledge and information has grown so fast that it is increasingly difficult for a scientist to have a view of the whole.