The most difficult subjects can be explained to the most slow-witted man if he has not formed any idea of them already; but the simplest thing cannot be made clear to the most intelligent man if he is firmly persuaded that he knows already, without a shadow of doubt, what is laid before him.
Leon Tolstoy – 1897
And it's true: prejudices make nearly everything impossible and this holds for intellectuals and academics as well. Too bad, that people do not even realize how blind they are at times...
