Few new truths have ever won their way against the resistance of established ideas save by being overstated.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
There is resistance to change. There's a resistance to ideas.
Almost all new ideas have a certain aspect of foolishness when they are first produced.
Truth exists; only lies are invented.
A new scientific truth does not triumph by convincing its opponents and making them see the light, but rather because its opponents eventually die, and a new generation grows up that is familiar with it.
Another symptom of progress toward the Singularity: ideas themselves should spread ever faster, and even the most radical will quickly become commonplace.
Initially, new ideas are rejected. Later they become dogma if you're right. And if you're really lucky, you can publish your rejections as part of your Nobel presentation.
To swallow and follow, whether old doctrine or new propaganda, is a weakness still dominating the human mind.
The discovery of truth is prevented more effectively, not by the false appearance things present and which mislead into error, not directly by weakness of the reasoning powers, but by preconceived opinion, by prejudice.
Most of the change we think we see in life is due to truths being in and out of favor.
Learning is always rebellion... Every bit of new truth discovered is revolutionary to what was believed before.