Professional Competence Quotes

• Every discipline develops standards of professional competence to which its workers are subject... Every scientific community is a society in the small, so to speak, with its own agencies of social control.

  Abraham Kaplan

  Agency, Discipline, Community

  Abraham Kaplan (1973). “The conduct of inquiry”, p.4, Transaction Publishers

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• I have no idols. I admire work, dedication and competence.

  Ayrton Senna

  Dedication, Idols, Admire

  "Personal Quotes/ Biography". www.imdb.com.

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• Whatever sense of professional competence we feel in adult life is less the sum of accomplishment than the absence of impossibility: it's really our relief at no longer having to do things we were never good at doing in the first place - relief at never again having to dissect a frog or memorize the periodic table.

  Adam Gopnik

  Accomplishment, Adults, Relief

  "Life Studies" by Adam Gopnik, www.newyorker.com. June 27, 2011.

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• Morally, a philosopher who uses his professional competence for anything except a disinterested search for truth is guilty of a kind of treachery.

  Bertrand Russell

  Use, Philosopher, Kind

  Bertrand Russell (2008). “History of Western Philosophy”, p.835, Simon and Schuster

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• The so-called scientific basis of the climate problem is within my professional competence as a meteorologist. It is my professional opinion that there is no evidence at all for catastrophic global warming. It is likely that global temperatures will rise a little, much as IPCC predicts, but there is a growing body of evidence that the errant behavior of the Sun may cause some cooling in the foreseeable future.

  Hendrik Tennekes

  Climate, Growing, Body

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• The Commission has five commissioners from each side, plus three alternates, so all together sixteen members, people who are independent from the two governments, who have a lot of integrity, professional competence, and who have credibility in their respective countries.

  Jose Ramos-Horta

  Country, Integrity, Independent

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