An ancient Greek said, “The mixture which is not shaken stagnates.” And it is the new which keeps society out of ruts.

The astronomer Galileo went to infamy for daring to see another world, the physician Harvey in 1608 got into a firefight for innocently saying blood circulated in the body. And even Einstein’s work was called, in 1928 at the Berlin Mathematicians’ Congress, “the greatest mathematical hoax of all time.” These and countless other men have each had their battles with the comfortable old.

So one can say it is in the cards of fate that if you would make things better, you must also be willing to stand up to criticism, protest and fire.

There are a lot of other historical instances of savage conflicts between the rebellious new and the reactionary old. To mention a few:

The philosopher Socrates maintained the integrity of his beliefs despite all opposition and eventually stood up to execution to assert simply that man was an immortal spirit.

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