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EVERY advance in thought has two aspects—the loss of the old and the gain of the new—and it is probably inevitable that, after the first flush of excitement has faded away, the former should become the more conspicuous. It may inspire joy at the passing of a delusion, or regret at the failure of an ideal: in either case it is the negative aspect of the change which protrudes itself, because all are conscious that what they believed in has gone, but only a few can at first see the significance of the new thing which has come.
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DINGLE, H. The New Age in Physics. Nature 135, 675–678 (1935). https://doi.org/10.1038/135675a0
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