A Generation of Fools
Every great discoverer has been met with the same incredulity — the sure brand of a generation of fools. When great facts are laid before you, you have not the intuition, the imagination which would help you to understand them. You can only throw mud at the men who have risked their lives to open new fields to science.
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Context: Challenger rounds on a jeering audience at a public scientific lecture.
Not in a duel yet
Source: Chapter 5: "Question!"