Wikiquote:Quote of the day/November 5, 2008

 

I suppose the process of acceptance will pass through the usual four stages:
(i) this is worthless nonsense;
(ii) this is an interesting, but perverse, point of view;
(iii) this is true, but quite unimportant;
(iv) I always said so.

~ J. B. S. Haldane ~