It did. What you missed is that to make a discovery one has to think hard about it and he/she must be right. Intelligent amateurs have an avantage over professionals since they think harder and since they don't know how things work they imagine how they work and sometimes they really work this way. Professional on the other hand usually believe in a theory that they learned but it ain't so. But of course for one inelligent amateur there are many ignorant fools which makes an impression that you are 100% right.