July 2011
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Fear of the Unknown. They are afraid of new ideas. They are loaded with prejudices, not based upon anything in reality, but based on… if something is new, I reject it immediately because it’s frightening to me. What they do instead is just stay with the familiar. You know, to me, the most beautiful things in all the universe, are the most mysterious.
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Such a solemn air of silence has descended between us that I almost feel as if I...
– from a letter to Conrad Habicht by Albert Einstein in which he describes his four Annus Mirabilis papers published in 1905