Sara Sheridan Quotes

I went to a mystery writers conference ... and I learned a lot not only from the faculty - and in the faculty we had forensic doctors, detectives, policemen, experts in guns, etc. - but from the questions of the students.

I'm blessed to be supported by some brilliant staff, who are all experts in their field and dedicated to what they do.

Actually, all I ever wanted to be was the best in my field.

I am convinced that the unwritten knowledge scattered among men of different callings surpasses in quantity and in importance anything we find in books, and that the greater part of our wealth has yet to be recorded.

I don't require that the main guest [of StarTalk] have any science knowledge or background at all. It's just, I have a conversation with them, it's long and winding, and we find out what parts of what we learn about the person lend themselves to further scientific discussion with an expert who is brought into the studio. So that's how that comes together.

Don't be shy about making a teacher of any willing party who knows what he or she is doing.

The ones who show up to take, they show up and say, "Hi. My name is Steve. I'm an expert in this and I've studied this and I've worked with these clients." On every single power point presentation, it has their email, their Twitter handle and their Facebook account, so you can follow them. At the end, they tell you, "Please follow me." When you ask them a question, they say, "Well, I could tell you the answer, but you should really just read my book."

You don't have to know everything as long as you know people who know the things you don't

We should be on our guard not to overestimate science and scientific methods when it is a question of human problems, and we should not assume that experts are the only ones who have the right to express themselves on questions affecting the organization of society.

An expert knows the subject very well. A model teaches by showing instead of just telling.

The older I get the more I admire and crave competence, just simple competence, in any field from adultery to zoology.

The mind of the beginner is empty, free of the habits of the experts, ready to accept, to doubt, and open to all possibilities.

Each genre has something to teach me about the others. Not all the lessons are transferable, but many of the most important ones are.

Teaching is a function, not a profession. Anything with something to offer can teach.

We know too much for one man to know too much.

Specialisation paralyses, ultra-specialisation kills. Palaeontology is littered with such catastrophes.

Know something about something. Don’t just present your wonderful self to the world. Constantly amass knowledge and offer it around.

Who knows more about male weakness: you or me? Use my knowledge, Sage.

The sciences are of a sociable disposition, and flourish best in the neighborhood of each other; nor is there any branch of learning but may be helped and improved by assistance drawn from other arts.

The expert is a midwife. The expert is not someone who has the authority to pronounce the last word on the subject.

And in my classes, I will talk most of the time, and you will listen most of the time. Because you may be smart, but I've been smart longer.

Where's the man who counsel can bestow, still pleased to teach, and yet not proud to know.

Be the best at what you do. Get to know more about your field than anybody alive.

We live in an age where everyone is so opinionated about everything in general in life, especially their expertise or their personal knowledge of anything that they're commenting on.

I'm not a psychologist, and I don't know how to play a more sophisticated role than the one that I have played for quite a few years, and that is spending a lot of time with these hard-working scientists in the various fields of expertise that relate to the climate crisis, learning as fully as I can the truths they are discovering, asking them to explain it in language that's simple enough for me to understand and then use that language to convey the essence of it, and then letting the chips fall where they may.