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
Professional knowledge and professional competence are the main attributes of leadership. Unless you know, and the men you command know that you know your job, you will never be a leader. Sam Manekshaw
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