That is what you have to expect if you invent anything that puts an old machine out of fashion, or solve a problem that has puzzled all the world up to your time. There never was a religion founded but its Messiah was called a crank. There never was an idea started that woke up men out of their stupid indifference but its originator was spoken of as a crank.

Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr. (1809-1894) American poet, essayist, scholar

Article (1890-06), “Over the Teacups,” No. 7, Atlantic Monthly, Vol. 66
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Collected in Over the Teacups, ch. 7 (1891).