There are no geniuses in a crowd
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“From the moment that they form part of a crowd, the learned man and the ignoramus are equally incapable of observation.”
—Gustave Le Bon in 1895 (Lapham's Quarterly)
I’ve sourced it to Lapham’s Quarterly but the original source was The Crowd: A Study of the Popular Mind (Wikipedia), which I read in 2005.
The title is a play on the expression, “There are no atheists in foxholes.”