A nylon stocking filled with sawdust that grows grass for hair launched one of the most successful toy companies in the world.
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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
The longing to behold this pre-established harmony is the source of the inexhaustible patience with which Spinoza must have waited for years to see his cherished conception of a mathematical proof of the existence of God.
Albert Einstein — The World As I See It
Every genuine boy is a rebel and an anarch. If he were allowed to develop according to his own instincts, his own inclinations, society would undergo such a radical transformation as to make the adult revolutionary cower and cringe.
John Dos Passos — Rosinante to the Road Again