Bruce E. Seely Quotes

Does it follow that I reject all authority? Perish the thought. In the matter of boots, I defer to the authority of the boot-maker.

Democrats, myself included, tend to respect and value expertise and find that people who have established a record of accuracy and developed a model that's proven to be beneficial over time should be people accorded great deference when they opine on a topic that they have demonstrated past mastery over.

Bloggers create kind of a popularity. But they are not the experts, and we have to understand that.

If you know what you're talking about, or if you feel that you do, the reader will believe you.

One of the things that is wrong with America is that everybody who has done anything at all in his own field is expected to be an authority on every subject under the sun.

A leading authority is anyone who has guessed right more than once.

As a physicist, I can state that none of the 18 physicists who signed the Statement works in this field; nor to my knowledge has ever published a paper on this subject.

Well, I'm a professional.

It is disappointing and embarrassing to the science profession that some Nobel Laureates would deliberately use their well deserved scientific reputations and hold themselves out as experts in other fields.

An expert is someone who tells you why you can't do something.

You should never trust the experts. If you believe the doctors, nothing is wholesome; if you believe the soldiers, nothing is safe.

In our "age of the expert" the expert has his constituency — those who have a vested interest in commonly held opinions; elaborating and defining the consensus at a high level has, after all, made him an expert.

Somebody’s got to stand up against these experts.

If any expert or scientist reaches a conclusion or espouses a view that departs from the ideologue’s world view, it is the expert that he examines carefully and not his ideology.

I strongly discourage any intellectuals, regardless of race, from speaking on matters for which they have limited or no expertise.

You can't say Charles doesn't know what he's talking about.

You have to be able to deep dive and know your stuff, otherwise you'll get called out on it.

Media houses should only hire people with a clean background to give their expert opinion.

Trust the expert. -Experto credite

Definition: CONNOISSEUR, n. A specialist who knows everything about something and nothing about anything else.

The 'expert' is the man who stays put.

What's my credibility? Why are they looking to me for advice? Isn't there someone more qualified?

I think it's very easy for people who are not deep in the technology itself to make generalizations, which may be a little dangerous. And we've certainly seen that recently with Elon Musk, Bill Gates, Stephen Hawking, all saying AI is just taking off and it's going to take over the world very quickly. And the thing that they share is none of them work in this technological field.

I dread specialists in power because they are specialists speaking outside of their special subject.

No man should attempt to teach others what he has never learned himself