An expert is a person who avoids small error as he sweeps on to the grand fallacy.
That is the greatest fallacy, the wisdom of old men. They do not grow wise. They grow careful.
I'm not afraid of facts, I welcome facts but a congeries of facts is not equivalent to an idea. This is the essential fallacy of the so-called "scientific" mind. People who mistake facts for ideas are incomplete thinkers; they are gossips.