He gassed on about it until everybody got so tired of the subject that the authorities had to put him in prison and keep him there until he said it wasn't true, and that he'd stop writing books to say it was.

As a matter of fact it was true, but it didn't matter.

We'd all be doing exactly the same things we are doing to-day if he had never made his beastly telescope.

On the other hand, men who get a hold of really important ideas often think very little of them.

Look, for example, at the case of the man who first thought of collecting a lot of people together and making them pass a unanimous resolution.