expertise Quotes

I did not end up as broadly educated as my Cambridge colleagues, but I graduated probably better equipped to write a book on my chosen subject.

I can handle heckling on evolution because it's my own field.

The best work is not what is most difficult for you; it is what you do best.

My expertise is the space program and what it should be in the future based on my experience of looking at the transitions that we've made between pre-Sputnik days and getting to the moon.

'At the Gates of the Animal Kingdom' by Amy Hempel showed me the lean quality of prose.

Clothes if they are not well cut, you can kill nobody. A building poorly built can kill people. It's a much more difficult work. I would not compare myself with that.

Don't overact the story of your name. Overact the story of your work.

The greater the difficulty the more glory in surmounting it. Skillful pilots gain their reputation from storms and tempests.

You do know what's coming up when you're translating. I suppose the concentration, then, is on finding a formulation which is speakable and in character - and economical as well, actually.

Measuring nuclear yield depends on multiple parameters - the location and number of instruments, the geology of the area, the location of the seismic station in relation to the test site.