Our time is so specialised that we have people who know more and more or less and less.
An expert is someone who knows some of the worst mistakes, which can be made, in a very narrow field.
It is not enough for a handful of experts to attempt the solution of a problem, to solve it and then to apply it. The restriction of knowledge to an elite group destroys the spirit of society and leads to its intellectual impoverishment.
When we become expert in something, our tastes grow more esoteric and complex.
A grandmaster must memorize thousands of chess duels in his head, as these are for him what words of the mother tongue are to the ordinary people and what notes are to a musician.
Definition: CONNOISSEUR, n. A specialist who knows everything about something and nothing about anything else.
A working detective has no hope of understanding what even experts who devote their lives to the study of criminal psychology can't figure out.
The knowledge of the individual citizen is of less value than the knowledge of science. The former is the opinion of individuals. It is merely subjective and is excluded from policies. The latter is objective - defined by science and promulgated by expert spokesmen. This objective knowledge is viewed as a commodity which can be refined... and fed into a process, now called decision-making. This new mythology of governance by the manipulation of knowledge-stock inevitably erodes reliance on government by people.
With Skype video calling, teachers can provide their students with first-hand knowledge from experts around the world and with other classes who are studying the same subject halfway across the world.
Owen [Suskind], in a sense, grew up on a diet of myth and fable, and has become an expert on their themes, which contain a moral guide that connects people.
Twenty-five years ago, the notion was you could create a general problem-solver software that could solve problems in many different domains. That just turned out to be totally wrong.
There's branches of science which I don't understand; for example, physics. It could be said, I suppose, that I have faith that physicists understand it better than I do.
A specialist is a man who knows more and more about less and less.
In the mind of the beginner, there are many possibilities. In the mind of the expert there are few.
I enjoy seeing the press. I learn much from reporters. In the White House press corps alone there are at least half a dozen experts already on animal husbandry.
A teacher is better than two books.
I would be wary of experts' intuition, except when they deal with something that they have dealt with a lot in the past.
I'd rather be a big fish in a specialized pond than a little, little fish in a more generalized big pond.
The people who make policy decisions should damned well know what they are talking about before they make the decisions. There is nobody who is an expert on cloning who would be afraid after seeing Attack of the Clones.
There is no body of theory or significant body of relevant information, beyond the comprehension of the layman, which makes policy immune from criticism.
I know a lot about the Titanic. My dad was a Titanic expert.
There are a great many things about architecture that are hidden from the untrained eye.
An expert knows the subject very well. A model teaches by showing instead of just telling.
Henderson had a thousand times more to do with the discovery of insulin than had Macleod. In the first place, he knew more about it. In the second place, he was consulted before every series of experiments, and he advised, criticized, or commended.
I mean, it's fun for us to talk about issues. You know, there's no one issue we spend a lot of time on probably, because he gets to do that all day with somebody else who's a lot more expert at issues than I am.
