Amateur Quote by B.F. Skinner Download Open image ““The amateur doesn't appreciate the need for experimentation. He wants his experts to know.”” — B.F. Skinner ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 3.6 out of 5 (7 ratings) Copy quoteShare Amateur Amateur Doesn Experimentation Experimentation Wants Need Experimentation Wants Experts
“The problem with experts is that they do not know what they do not know.” — Nassim Nicholas Taleb Copy Share Image
“An expert is someone who doesn't want to learn anything new, because then he would not be an expert” — Harry Truman Copy Share Image
“I’m a scientific expert; that means I know nothing about absolutely everything.” — Arthur C. Clarke Copy Share Image
Experimentation is the least arrogant method of gaining knowledge. The experimenter humbly asks a question of nature. — Isaac Asimov Copy Share Image
“It's amazing what some scientist will do to invent something new or learn about something they don't understand. They're like psychos with a license.” — Brandy Nacole Copy Share Image
“Was I a science experiment? Did he want to pin me down and dissect me?” — Suzanne Young Copy Share Image
“It’s strange. He knows more about science than we do, and he’s a hundred years in the past. He says we depend too much… — Nancy Farmer Copy Share Image
“Anybody who is experiencing something is more expert in it than the experts.” — Gloria Steinem Copy Share Image
The experimenter who does not know what he is looking for will not understand what he finds. — Claude Bernard Copy Share Image
“Rees, the secret of a Scientist is not what he knows. It’s what he asks.” — Stephen Baxter Copy Share Image
“In a pre-scientific society the best the common man can do is pin his faith on a leader and give him his support, trusting… — B.F. Skinner Copy Share Image
“One may take the line that metaphorical devices are inevitable in the early stages of any science and that although we may look with… — B.F. Skinner Copy Share Image
“Democracy is the spawn of despotism. And like father, like son. Democracy is power and rule. It's not the will of the people, remember;… — B.F. Skinner Copy Share Image
“The most effective alternative process [to punishment] is probably extinction. This takes time but is much more rapid than allowing the response to be… — B.F. Skinner Copy Share Image
“Science not only describes, it predicts. It deals not only with the past but with the future. Nor is prediction the last word: to… — B.F. Skinner Copy Share Image
“This is implied in the assertion that a man shows certain behavior because he was “born that way.” To object to this is not… — B.F. Skinner Copy Share Image
“Severe punishment unquestionably has an immediate effect in reducing a tendency to act in a given way. This result is no doubt responsible for… — B.F. Skinner Copy Share Image
“Once in a while a new government initiates a program to put power to better use, but its success or failure never really proves… — B.F. Skinner Copy Share Image
“Promising paradise or threatening hell-fire is, we assumed, generally admitted to be unproductive. It is based upon a fundamental fraud which, when discovered, turns… — B.F. Skinner Copy Share Image
“In a democracy, there is no check against despotism, because the principle of democracy is supposed to be itself a check. But it guarantees… — B.F. Skinner Copy Share Image
“We can achieve a sort of control under which the controlled, though they are following a code much more scrupulously than was ever the… — B.F. Skinner Copy Share Image
“Compare two people, one of whom has been crippled by an accident, the other by an early environmental history which makes him lazy and,… — B.F. Skinner Copy Share Image
A professional is a man who can do his job when he doesn't feel like it. An amateur is a man who can't do… — James Agate Copy Share Image
My father was a GP; my mother was a teacher and amateur actress. My father was a bit of a storyteller, but the acting… — Ciaran Hinds Copy Share Image
I think most amateurs dread playing a 180-plus-yard par 3 even more than a hard par 4. Part of it is psychological: You think… — Ernie Els Copy Share Image
I read a lot of 'Nancy Drew' books as a kid and considered myself a bit of an amateur detective. — Chelsea Cain Copy Share Image
You count a man's U.S. Amateur titles after he starts winning professional majors. That's something any intelligent golf writer with a sense of history… — Dan Jenkins Copy Share Image
Most amateurs are so worried about mis-hitting the shot or hitting it off line, they don't make an aggressive move. You'd be surprised how… — Keegan Bradley Copy Share Image
Time management is probably the biggest thing I've had to learn to deal with being on the PGA Tour, whether it be media or… — Rickie Fowler Copy Share Image
When people buy, rescue, or otherwise acquire a dog from unscrupulous breeders or amateur rescue groups, they are making a decision with ethical consequences.… — Jon Katz Copy Share Image
“Coincidence has nothing to do with faith or destiny , it's just a miss matched equation of timing and spacing ... just like a butterfly effect” — Omar Mezzat Copy Share Image
I'm helpless in post-round, hole-by-hole interviews. I can't take you through most of the holes of winning the Players Championship, the U.S. Amateur or… — Matt Kuchar Copy Share Image