The poker player learns that sometimes both science and common sense are wrong; that the bumblebee can fly; that, perhaps, one should never trust an expert; that there are more things in heaven and earth than are dreamt of by those with an academic bent.
ATTRIBUTION:
David Mamet (b. 1947), U.S. playwright. “Things I Have Learned Playing Poker on the Hill,” Writing in Restaurants (1986).
