Specialist Quotes
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A scientist has the additional responsibility that comes with being a specialist: explaining science to the public, advising of its usefulness and benefits, and warning of its dangers and disadvantages. This is the responsibility of any specialist.
larkin kerwin— in The Role of Canadian Science, edited by Bernard Ostry, Janice Yalden (2004). Visions of Canada: the Alan B. Plaunt memorial lectures, 1958-1992. McGill-Queen's Press. p. 492. ISBN 0773526625.
The definition of a specialist as one who'knows more and more about less and less' isgood and true.
— 1939 In Modern Hospital, Sep.
[In the modern game], you're either a clay court specialist, a grass court specialist or a hard court specialist ... or you're Roger Federer.
roger federer— Jimmy Connors, winner of 8 Grand Slams.[34]
I believe we have to put art back at the center of everyday life rather than allowing it to become a specialist activity at the margins of society.
martin firrell— quoted in The International Herald Tribune (19 September 2005)
Many years later I was told that the great specialist had admitted to friends of his that he had altered his treatment of neurasthenia since reading The Yellow Wallpaper.It was not intended to drive people crazy, but to save people from being driven crazy, and it worked.
charlotte perkins gilman— "Why I Wrote The Yellow Wallpaper" in The Forerunner (October 1913).
Here is guy who came to us as a return specialist and defensive back and has developed into a very good receiver. Has always had great hands and he has become a very good route runner. With his speed, he is a threat to score anytime he touches the ball.
ginn, ted, jr.— Jim Tressel
Quick, shrewd and witty, he was a brilliant specialist in operational and training matters and the son of a distinguished general. He supported Beck's resistance to Hitler, but when it came to a crunch was no real help. Flirt as he did, in September, with those opposed to Hitler, he toed the party line when extreme pressure was exerted for the return of the Sudetenland and its German nationals by the Czechs to Germany.
franz halder— Kenneth Macksey
I saw a specialist who asked me 'Are you familiar with the phrase faecal impaction?'. I said I think I saw that one with Glenn Close and Michael Douglas.
bob monkhouse— Second obituary on BBC news website [2]
From semantics to shipbuilding, from dream theory to propositional logic, any specialist … is invariably astonished to discover that modern knowledge was foreshadowed at the time. … Should we not replace these foreshadowings by the study of the influences of Hellenistic thought on modern thought?
lucio russo— 7.6, "The Figurative Arts, Literature and Music", p. 228
We are accustomed to the artist scoundrel or specialist in vice, and unaccustomed to the creator in whom passion and reason and moral integrity hold in balance. But greatness of intellect and feeling, or soul and conduct magnanimity, in short does occur; it is not a myth for boy scouts, and its reality is important, if only to give us the true range of the term "human," which we so regularly define by its lower reaches.
jacques barzun— Preface to the 3rd edition of Berlioz and the Romantic Century (1969)
We are effectively destroying ourselves by violence masquerading as love. I am a specialist, God help me, in events in inner space and time, in experiences called thoughts, images, reveries, dreams, visions, hallucinations, dreams of memories, memories of dreams, memories of visions, dreams of hallucinations, refractions of refractions of refractions of that original Alpha and Omega of experience and reality, that Reality on whose repression, denial, splitting, projection, falsification, and general desecration and profanation our civilisation as much as anything is based.
ronald david laing— p. 58 (The Politics of Experience (1967))
He [the "specialist"] is one who, out of all that has to be known in order to be a man of judgment, is only acquainted with one science, and even of that one only knows the small corner in which he is an active investigator. He even proclaims it as a virtue that he takes no cognisance of what lies outside the narrow territory specially cultivated by himself, and gives the name of "dilettantism" to any curiosity for the general scheme of knowledge.
josé ortega y gasset— Chapter XII: The Barbarism Of "Specialisation"
No man can be a pure specialist without being in the strict sense an idiot .
George Bernard Shaw— #41. (Maxims for Revolutionists (1903))
The former distrust of specialization has been supplanted by its opposite, a distrust of generalization. Not only has man become a specialist in practice, he is being taught that special facts represent the highest form of knowledge.
richard weaver— p. 59 (Ideas have Consequences (1948))
The specialist is one who never makes small mistakes while moving towards the grand fallacy.
— Marshall McLuhan (1964) Understanding Media p. 154
The former distrust of specialization has been supplanted by its opposite, a distrust of generalization. Not only has man become a specialist in practice, he is being taught that special facts represent the highest form of knowledge.
richard weaver— Richard Weaver, Ideas Have Consequences (Chicago: 1948), p. 59
