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Originally Posted by Brutha  But nobody took the paper seriously.
Ideas alone are worth nothing if you can't convince other people.
This is similar to some college student today writing a bachelor thesis that contains some extremly important insight.
Twenty years later someone else who does a lot of research discovers the same thing and convinces the world that the ideas are right. |
I disagree. Some of the most profound ideas were not accepted immediately, and that doesn't diminish who discovered them or their importance. Look at all the new science ideas that at first were ignored: a round earth, sun as center of solar system, evolution, natural selection, age of the Earth, what fossils really are, etc.
It's human nature to reject a totally new way of looking at something. It makes people uncomfortable because it challenges so much of what they thought was right. I believe it's almost a requirement for a huge idea to take awhile to be accepted; it's proof of how radical and new the idea really is.
At least that's just my way of looking at things.