Expertise Limitations Quotes

Expertise in one field does not carry over into other fields. But experts often think so. The narrower their field of knowledge the more likely they are to think so.

An expert is someone who knows some of the worst mistakes, which can be made, in a very narrow field.

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

An expert is somebody who is more than 50 miles from home, has no responsibility for implementing the advice he gives, and shows slides.

Experts often possess more data than judgment.

Political Economy, in truth, has never pretended to give advice to mankind with no lights but its own; though people who knew nothing but political economy (and therefore knew it ill) have taken upon themselves to advise, and could only do so by such lights as they had.

Experts always know everything but the fine points. When I took my citizenship exams, no one there knew how the White House came to be called the White House.

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

If your mind is empty, it is ready for anything. In the beginner's mind there are many possibilities; in the expert's mind there are few.

For folks in Washington to believe that they are smart enough to pick the next energy technology is, in my judgment, the height of arrogance. For me or any of my peers to pick energy-technology X as the solution to solving America's energy problems is just a fool's errand.

We have not overthrown the divine right of kings to fall down for the divine right of experts.

Every honest researcher I know admits he's just a professional amateur. He's doing whatever he's doing for the first time. That makes him an amateur. He has sense enough to know that he's going to have a lot of trouble, so that makes him a professional.

As a playwright, you can cover a lot of waterfront without being able to hold your own against an expert in any of those areas. I have no illusions about that.

The Nobel Prize confers on an individual an authority which in economics no man ought to possess.

We need to be willing to risk embarrassment, ask silly questions, surround ourselves with people who don't know what we're talking about. We need to leave behind the safety of our expertise.

I don't expect that because I was successful in one field that I will then get a ride of passage into another.