"Persistence prevails, like a stream that is temporarily blocked by boulders and then collects force enough to overflow onward."

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Concepts which have proved useful for ordering things easily assume so great an authority over us, that we forget their terrestrial origin and accept them as unalterable facts. They then become labeled as 'conceptual necessities,' etc. The road of scientific progress is frequently blocked for long periods by such errors.

— Albert Einstein