Quotes About Expertise

Part of what I do is a craft, but part of what I do is a science. And I guess the craft comes in knowing what science to use and what science not to use.

Contrary to widespread belief, I do know something about science.

Surgical knowledge depends on long practice, not from speculations.

The villagers seldom leave the village; many scientists have limited and poorly cultivated minds apart from their specialty.

[An artist] will sooner and with more certainty, establish the character of skeletons, than the most learned anatomist, whose eye has not been accustomed to seize on every peculiarity.

The main motivations were to try to leverage Google's expertise with large computer systems and to try to give something back to science

For the educated, the authority of science rested on the strictness of its methods; for the mass, it rested on the powers of explanation.

The admiral needs only one science, that of navigation. The general needs all the sciences.

I was at my best at a little past forty, when I was a professor at Oxford.

In science, as in art, and, as I believe, in every other sphere of human activity, there may be wisdom in a multitude of counsellors, but it is only in one or two of them.

Hippocrates is an excellent geometer but a complete fool in everyday affairs.

Programming is not a science. Programming is a craft.

Mathematical Mark all mathematical heads, which be only and wholly bent to those sciences, how solitary they be themselves, how unfit to live with others, and how unapt to serve in the world.

I am not a scientist.

I would like to be a heart surgeon or brain surgeon... something with that knowledge and the ability to save a life would be pretty cool. I wasn't that good in science class, though.

Science blogs bore me. When everyone is an expert, no one is an expert.

Very few [doctors] are men of science in any very serious sense; they're men of technique.

Authority. The antithesis of science.

Books to judicious compilers, are useful; to particular arts and professions, they are absolutely necessary; to men of real science, they are tools: but more are tools to them.

She's qualified all right. She understands robots like a sister—comes from hating human beings so much, I think.

I have done so much medical and scientific research Crashing Life I am thinking about putting PhD behind my name or maybe B.S.

You can be an expert any field of study with consistent effort and consistent learning.

All science is either Physics or stamp-collecting.

Society is best served when the means of production are in the possession of those who know how to use them best.