> > Exceptions arise only in cases where ideas are much too far ahead of their time. The only example I can think of right now is Leonardo Da Vinci inventing the helicopter, but I'm sure there are better examples. These ideas will seem so far out to contemporaries that they die (only to be resurrected by historians after "the helicopter has been invented", so to speak).
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> Relativity met with a *whole* lot of dissagreement at first. Dissagreement that lasted for decades. When an idea comes out that completely changes the universe, people don't act very kindly to it.

That seems to happen quite a bit in science, when a new theory meets a lot of resistance from the scientific community. Plate tectonics, and natural selection come to mind as other examples. I'm sure there are many others, too.

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