“ When great facts are laid before you, you have not the intuition, the imagination which would help you to understand them. ”
Arthur Conan Doyle, The Lost World (1912). copy citation
| Author | Arthur Conan Doyle |
|---|---|
| Source | The Lost World |
| Topic | imagination understanding |
| Date | 1912 |
| Language | English |
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| Weblink | http://www.gutenberg.org/files/139/139-h/139-h.htm |
Context
“The Professor, with his face flushed, his nostrils dilated, and his beard bristling, was now in a proper Berserk mood.) "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. You persecute the prophets! Galileo! Darwin, and I——" (Prolonged cheering and complete interruption.)
All this is from my hurried notes taken at the time, which give little notion of the absolute chaos to which the assembly had by this time been reduced.”
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