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If you hate to be told,
"I told you so," you should be able to identify with the following dreamers.
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After three failed attempts to get his flying machine off the ground,
Samuel Pierpont Langley was criticized by the New York Times for wasting government
funds on and idle dream.
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Everybody knows that the stars are suns with planets of
their own. So did the German archbishop,
Nicholas of Cusa, in 1450. Nobody listened.
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Eight years before the telephone was invented,
Mahlon Loomis carried on a two-way conversation over a wireless device between two Virginia
mountaintops, 18 miles apart. He failed to find financial backers.
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It took
Magellan to prove that the world was round, but as early as -350 the idea
was generally accepted by the Greeks.
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More than 5000 years ago, the Emperor of China wrote that blood is circulated
through the body by the heart.
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Wouldn't you hate to have been
Charles H. Duell
the patent office official who, around the turn of
the century, announced that everything has been invented? Or the church fathers who
proclaimed Galileo's theories absurd?
If your job involves the painful process of deciding
which off-the-wall idea deserves to be peeled off the wall and put into production, take
heart. If you fail, you're in great company.
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