You must, nevertheless, suffer for it. It should make you jump up and do something. The lessons of the ordinary are everywhere. The most important thing in science is not so much to obtain new facts as to discover new ways of thinking about them. Sometimes all you need to open the door is just one more good idea.
Every new idea is an impossibility until it is born.
There are more ideas on earth than intellectuals imagine. Ideas do not rule the world. Napoleon Hill Lots of people know a good thing the minute the other fellow sees it first. If you have the same ideas as everybody else but have them one week earlier than everyone else then you will be hailed as a visionary. But if you have them five years earlier you will be named a lunatic.