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Almost all really new ideas have a certain aspect of foolishness when they are first produced.
— Alfred North Whitehead
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An editorial interpretation.
Unfamiliar ideas can look foolish before anyone understands what they might offer. The observation separates a first impression from an idea's eventual worth. It questions ridicule as a reliable judgment, while stopping short of saying that every odd idea will succeed.
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