„An expert is a person who has found out by his own painful experience all the mistakes that one can make in a very narrow field.“
As quoted by Edward Teller, in Dr. Edward Teller's Magnificent Obsession by Robert Coughlan, in LIFE magazine (6 September 1954), p. 62 http://books.google.de/books?id=I1QEAAAAMBAJ&pg=PA62
As quoted by Edward Teller (10 October 1972), and A Dictionary of Scientific Quotations (1991) by Alan L. Mackay, p. 35
Variante: An expert is a man who has made all the mistakes which can be made in a very narrow field.
Niels Bohr8
fisico e matematico danese 1885 - 1962Citazioni simili
— Werner Heisenberg, libro The Part and The Whole
Ein Fachmann ist ein Mann, der einige der gröbsten Fehler kennt, die man in dem betreffenden Fach machen kann, und der sie deshalb zu vermeiden versteht.
Der Teil und das Ganze. Gespräche im Umkreis der Atomphysik (1969); also in "Kein Chaos, aus dem nicht wieder Ordnung würde", Die Zeit No. 34 (22 August 1969); as translated in Physics and Beyond : Encounters and Conversation (1971)
„Each person feels pain in his own way, each has his own scars.“
— Haruki Murakami, libro Kafka sulla spiaggia
Origine: Kafka on the Shore
— Mortimer J. Adler American philosopher and educator 1902 - 2001
Origine: Reforming Education: The Schooling of a People and Their Education Beyond Schooling (1977), p. 255
— Richard Feynman American theoretical physicist 1918 - 1988
Part 5: "The World of One Physicist", "The 7 Percent Solution", p. 255
Surely You're Joking, Mr. Feynman! (1985)
— Sri Sri Ravi Shankar spiritual leader 1956
Origine: Celebrating Silence: Excerpts from Five Years of Weekly Knowledge 1995-2000
— Arnold Zuboff American philosopher 1946
" My 8 Big Ideas https://www.researchgate.net/publication/286624424_My_8_Big_Ideas" (2011), p. 9
— Ingvar Kamprad Entrepreneur 1926 - 2018
"The Testament of a Furniture Dealer" http://www.ikea.com/ms/en_US/pdf/reports-downloads/the-testament-of-a-furniture-dealer.pdf (1976).
„We all make mistakes but one has to move on.“
— Jeffrey Archer English author and former politician 1940
„A well adjusted person is one who makes the same mistake twice without getting nervous.“
— Alexander Hamilton Founding Father of the United States 1757 - 1804
— Clement Attlee Former Prime Minister of the United Kingdom 1883 - 1967
Address to the Oxford University Law Society (14 June 1957), quoted in The Times (15 June 1957), p. 4.
1950s
— John C. Maxwell American author, speaker and pastor 1947
Origine: Leadership Gold: Lessons I've Learned from a Lifetime of Leading
„One must make one's own mistakes“
— Agatha Christie, libro Cat Among the Pigeons
Origine: Cat Among the Pigeons
— Koenraad Elst orientalist, writer 1959
Well, I’ll grant you the criminologists.
Elst, Koenraad. The Wikipedia lemma on "Koenraad Elst": a textbook example of defamation (2013) https://koenraadelst.blogspot.com/2013/05/the-wikipedia-lemma-on-koenraad-elst.html
2010s
— Friedrich Nietzsche, libro On the Genealogy of Morality
Essay 3, Aphorism 10
On the Genealogy of Morality (1887)
Variante: Whoever, at any time, has undertaken to build a new heaven has found the strength for it in his own hell...
— Edmund Hillary New Zealand mountaineer 1919 - 2008
Cited in Pioneer, 9/11/1990. Quoted from Elst, Koenraad (1991). Ayodhya and after: Issues before Hindu society.
— Ernst Ruska German physicist 1906 - 1988
On the advantage of facing doubt when one has discovered something new. Speech at the Nobel Banquet, December 10, 1986 http://nobelprize.org/nobel_prizes/physics/laureates/1986/ruska-speech.html.
