An expert

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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.

Niels Bohr

As quoted by Edward Teller, in Dr. Edward Teller's Magnificent Obsession by Robert Coughlan, in LIFE magazine (6 September 1954), p. 62

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"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. "
   --Niels Bohr, As quoted by Edward Teller, in Dr. Edward Teller's Magnificent Obsession by Robert Coughlan, in LIFE magazine (6 September 1954), p. 62