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Every really new idea looks crazy at first. Every important scientific advance has had to fight its way to acceptance against the prejudice of its age — and the prejudice of its age is simply the common sense of its age.
— Abraham Flexner, The Usefulness of Useless Knowledge (1939)

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We are reluctant to believe that the world we see is not the whole world. Yet the history of knowledge is largely the history of such reluctance being overcome.

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