One problem with saying that we should only listen to experts is that new ideas often come from outsiders. Where an idea came from is one predictor of its validity, but no more than that. And in some fields it's a rather bad predictor.
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To paraphrase Mark Twain, “What’s an expert anyway? Just some guy from out of town.”
Are you sure? "Some guy" doesn't sound like the English of his time.
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Lol I did say paraphrase! Google says the quote is "an ordinary fellow from another town." Less pzazz if you ask me...
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One of hundreds of apocryphal Twain quotes. Someone should just claim all of them for himself, since a lot of them are really good, and we all want good quotes to have a famous name attached.
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