An expert is a person who avoids the small errors while sweeping on to the grand fallacy.

A poet on Pegasus, reciting his own verses, is hardly more to be dreaded than a mounted specialist.

Specialized meaninglessness has come to be regarded, in certain circles, as a kind of hall mark of true science.

The essence of the expert is that his field shall be very special and narrow: one of the ways in which he inspires confidence is to rigidly limit himself to the little toe; he would scarcely venture an off-the-record opinion on an infected little finger.

Wherever learning breeds specialists, the sum of human culture is enhanced thereby. That is the illusion and consolation of specialists.