Quotes About Expertise

Skill. She must know more anatomy than most professors. A doctorate in Prostitution? There was more to the oldest profession than met the eye. Louis Wu could recognize expertise in any field. This woman had it.

Never criticize, unless you can do a better job.

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because they knew the sea better than they knew land;

Computer science education cannot make anybody an expert programmer any more than studying brushes and pigment can make somebody an expert painter.

A chemist who is not a physicist is nothing at all.

Medical scientists are nice people, but you should not let them treat you.

I suggest that the best geologist is he who has seen most rocks.

Not every statement by a scientist is a statement of science.

My idea of an educated person is one who can converse on one subject for more than two minutes.

All of science can be divided into physics and stamp-collecting.

Where there is no knowledge ignorance calls itself science.

A man of true science... thinks, that by mouthing hard words, he proves that he understands hard things.

Given one well-trained physician of the highest type and he will do better work for a thousand people than ten specialists.

If an elderly but distinguished scientist says that something is possible, he is almost certainly right; but if he says that it is impossible, he is very probably wrong.

The man of science appears to be the only man who has something to say just now, and the only man who does not know how to say it.

What I really want is a creative person. You can always hire a Ph.D. to take care of the details.

The manipulation of statistical formulas is no substitute for knowing what one is doing.

In science, as in love, a concentration on technique is likely to lead to impotence.

I try to learn certain areas of computer science exhaustively; then I try to digest that knowledge into a form that is accessible to people who don't have time for such study.

At a given instant everything the surgeon knows suddenly becomes important to the solution of the problem. You can't do it an hour later, or tomorrow. Nor can you go to the library and look it up.

As a microbiologist, I am particularly concerned with Mr. Bush's blatant disregard for science.

Specialized meaninglessness has come to be regarded, in certain circles, as a kind of hallmark of true science.

There is no debate here, just scientists and non-scientists. And since the subject is science, the non-scientists don't get a vote.