The vitality of thought is in adventure. Ideas won't keep. Something must be done about them. When the idea is new, its custodians have fervor, live for it, and if need be, die for it. There is one thing stronger than all the armies in the world, and that is an idea whose time has come.
Many ideas grow better when transplanted into another mind than in the one where they sprung up.
Professor Goddard does not know the relation between action and reaction and the need to have something better than a vacuum against which to react. He seems to lack the basic knowledge ladled out daily in high schools. 1921 New York Times editorial about Robert Goddard's revolutionary rocket work. It can't be done. It's just a fact of life.