"I anticipate that any, unprepared for these results, which, through long familiarity,
appear to me simple and obvious, will consider them still far from practical application.
Such reserve, and even opposition, of some is as useful a quality and as necessary
an element in human progress as the quick receptivity and enthusiasm of
others. Thus, a mass which resists the force at first, once set in movement, adds to
the energy. The scientific man does not aim at an immediate result. He does not
expect that his advanced ideas will be readily taken up. His work is like that of the
planter—for the future. His duty is to lay the foundation for those who are to come,
and point the way."
Nikola Tesla