Quotes About Expertise

Scientifically illiterate case law like this obviates the need for rigorous research in forensics. Few traditional forensic techniques have useful applications outside of the justice system and, as a result, once courts allow a technique to be used, there is no real incentive to conduct research—or even test the abilities of putative experts. Why conduct research on a technique that has already been accepted in court, the only place it matters?

In science, foundation-free opinions by self-proclaimed experts are rejected as ipse dixit (roughly translated, "It is so because I say so").

I wasn't a normal professor. I had worked in government. I hadn't written nine zillion books. I was a hands-on professor.

Until they enter elementary school most youngsters are motivated by the challenge itself, not by stars or grades or rewards. This is called mastery motivation and is the form of learning most likely to lead to both engagement and persistence, and ultimately to expertise.

People are very good at things they are very interested in.

Thus we might not know we have a sage at the table, for he will remain silent while the "experts" prattle on and on.

Like their Martian ancestors, men pride themselves on being experts, especially when it comes to fixing mechanical things, getting places, or solving problems. These are the times when he needs her loving acceptance the most and not her advice or criticism.

El destino al que está abocado cualquier especialista de cualquier área de la ciencia es ceñirse cada vez más estrechamente al tema de su especialidad, aprendiendo cada vez más sobre cada vez menos materia, hasta acabar finalmente sabiéndolo todo sobre nada.

He presided over murder trials, studied forensics and knew more about the science than the experts, and, most importantly, he knew how much evidence was needed to convict. A helluva lot! Beyond a reasonable doubt. Far more than any low-paid cop had been able to find along his graveyard trail.

She was an expert at the art of sudden appearance.

To win the lottery once may be evidence of luck or skill; to win it repeatedly is evidence of skill.

There is an old saying, or should be, that it is a wise economist who recognizes the scope of his own generalizations.

Of all human activities, education is the one most likely to give rise to cant, pomposity and fraudulent expertise.

There's nothing worse than when someone takes a community education course and becomes an expert on how yoga is the best way to burn the visceral fat that's housed deep in your abdomen.

Some full professors could more accurately be described as empty professors.

Education isn't a magic pill. There is no magic pill. But the closest we have is practical expertise and relentless drive.

I definitely had a top-notch education.

Risk comes from not knowing what you're doing

The purpose of education is to make good human beings with skill and expertise... Enlightened human beings can be created by teachers.

A one-book man is either a slow learner or an ill-equipped teacher.

CEOs are hired for their intellect and business expertise - and fired for a lack of emotional intelligence.

I'm an athlete, my job is not negotiating, it's not my field of expertise. I'm an emotional guy - it's normal, a lot of athletes are, and we're very susceptible to get our ego cut because of that.

The environmental community has an opportunity to create and leverage partnerships with the development community on social issues, rather than trying to develop new expertise of its own.

Strive for excellence in few things, rather than good performance in many.